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ME 352
Heat Transfer
Lecture 2 - Thermal Resistance
Concept in Plain Walls, Cylinders
and Spheres
March 03, 2021
Sinan Kesriklioglu, PhD

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer
• Fourier’s law

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer

• Fourier’s law

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 1D Steady State Heat Transfer
• Assumptions
• Heat conduction is steady.
• Heat conduction is one dimensional since
the wall is large relative to its thickness and
the thermal conditions on both sides are
uniform.
• Thermal conductivity is constant.
• There is no heat generation.

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 Thermal Resistance Concept
• Conduction

• Fourier’s law

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 Thermal Resistance Concept
• Convection
• Newton’s law

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 Thermal Resistance Concept
• Radiation
• Stefan–Boltzmann law

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 Thermal Resistance Concept
• Convection + Radiation

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Cylinder

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Sphere

𝐶2
𝑇 = 𝐶1 +
𝑟

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Sphere
𝐶2
𝑇 = 𝐶1 +
𝑟

𝑇𝐻 𝑟𝑖𝑛 −𝑇𝐶 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 (𝑇𝐻 −𝑇𝐶 )

𝑇= −
𝑟𝑖𝑛 − 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑟(𝑟𝑖𝑛 − 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 )

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 1D Radial Conduction through a Sphere

𝑇𝐻 𝑟𝑖𝑛 −𝑇𝐶 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 (𝑇𝐻 −𝑇𝐶 )

𝑇= −
𝑟𝑖𝑛 − 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑟(𝑟𝑖𝑛 − 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 )

𝑑𝑇 2
4𝑘π 𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡 (𝑇𝐻 − 𝑇𝐶 )
𝑞ሶ = −4𝑘π𝑟 =−
𝑑𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑛 − 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑡

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 Contact Resistance

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 Contact Resistance

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 Contact Resistance Measurement

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 Questions?

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