ME 2805: Heat and Mass Transfer-I

Lecture 4 & 5: Steady State Heat Conduction

Md. Shariful Alam Emon

Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
DUET, Gazipur -1707.

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 Steady Heat Conduction: Plane Wall

1)Considerable temperature difference

between the inner and the outer
surfaces of the wall (significant
temperature gradient in the x
direction).

2)The wall surface is nearly isothermal.

Steady one-dimensional modeling

approach is justified.

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 Steady Heat Conduction: Plane Wall

Assuming heat transfer is the only energy interaction and there is no heat generation, the
energy balance can be expressed as
Zero for steady
operation

Rate of Rate of Rate of change

heat transfer - heat transfer = of the energy
into the wall out of the wall of the wall

or  0

dEwall
Qin  Qout  0 (1)
dt

The rate of heat transfer through the wall must be constant Q cond , wall  constant
( ).

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 Steady Heat Conduction: Plane Wall
Then Fourier’s law of heat conduction for the wall can be expressed as
 dT
Qcond , wall   kA (W) (2)
dx
Remembering that the rate of conduction heat transfer and the wall area A
are constant it follows
dT/dx=constant

The temperature through the wall varies linearly with x.

Integrating the above equation and rearranging yields
 T1  T2
Qcond , wall  kA (W) (3)
L
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 Thermal Resistance Concept: Conduction Resistance

• Equation 3 for heat conduction through a plane wall can be rearranged as

 T1  T2
Qcond , wall  (W) (4)
Rwall

• Where Rwall is the conduction resistance expressed as

L
Rwall  
( C/W) (5)
kA

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 Analogy to Electrical Current Flow

Eq. 6 is analogous to the relation for electric current flow I, expressed as

V1  V2
I (6)
Re

Heat Transfer Electrical current flow

Rate of heat transfer  Electric current
Thermal resistance  Electrical resistance
Temperature difference  Voltage difference

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 Thermal Resistance Concept: Convection Resistance

Thermal resistance can also be applied to convection processes.

• Newton’s law of cooling for convection heat transfer rate ( Q conv  hAs Ts  T )
can be rearranged as

 Ts  T
Qconv  (W) (7)
Rconv

• Rconv is the convection resistance

1
Rconv  (C/W) (8)
hAs

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 Thermal Resistance Concept: Radiation Resistance

The rate of radiation heat transfer between a surface and the surrounding

Ts  Tsurr
 4 4
 
Qrad   As Ts  Tsurr  hrad As (Ts  Tsurr ) 
Rrad
(W)
(9)

1
Rrad  (K/W)
hrad As (10)

Q
hrad  rad
As (Ts  Tsurr )

  Ts2  Tsurr
2
 Ts  Tsurr  (W/m 2  K) (11)

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 Thermal Resistance Concept: Radiation and Convection Resistance
• A surface exposed to the surrounding
might involves convection and radiation
simultaneously.

• The convection and radiation resistances

are parallel to each other.

• When Tsurr≈T∞, the radiation effect can

properly be accounted for by replacing h
in the convection resistance relation by
(12)

hcombined = h conv
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 Thermal Resistance Network

Consider steady one-dimensional heat transfer through a plane wall that is exposed to
convection on both sides.

• Under steady conditions we have

Rate of Rate of Rate of
heat convection
into the wall
= heat conduction
through the wall
= heat convection
from the wall

or
Q  h1 A T ,1  T1  
T1  T2
kA  h2 A T2  T ,2  (13)
L

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 Thermal Resistance Network
Rearranging and Adding
 T ,1  T1  Q  Rconv ,1

 T1  T2  Q  Rwall
  R
T
 2  T ,2  Q conv ,2

T ,1  T ,2  Q( Rconv ,1  Rwall  Rconv ,2 )  Q  Rtotal

 T ,1  T ,2
Q (W) (`14)
Rtotal
where
1 L 1 
Rtotal  Rconv ,1  Rwall  Rconv ,2    ( C/W)
h1 A kA h2 A (15)

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 Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient

• It is sometimes convenient to express heat transfer through a medium in

an analogous manner to Newton’s law of cooling as

Q  UAT (W) (16)

• where U is the overall heat transfer coefficient.

• Note that
1
UA  
( C/K)
Rtotal (17)

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 Multilayer Plane Walls

• In practice we often encounter plane

walls that consist of several layers of
different materials.

• The rate of steady heat transfer

through this two-layer composite wall
can be expressed as below; the total
thermal resistance is-

Rtotal  Rconv,1  Rwall ,1  Rwall ,2  Rconv,2

1 L1 L2 1
    (18)
h1 A k1 A k2 A h2 A

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 Thermal Contact Resistance

• In reality surfaces have some roughness.

• When two surfaces are pressed against each

other, the peaks form good material contact but
the valleys form voids filled with air.
•
• As a result, an interface contains numerous air
gaps of varying sizes that act as insulation
because of the low thermal conductivity of air.

• Thus, an interface offers some resistance to heat

transfer, which is termed the thermal contact
resistance, Rc.

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 Thermal Contact Resistance

• The value of thermal contact resistance depends on the

• surface roughness,
• material properties,
• temperature and pressure at the interface,
• type of fluid trapped at the interface.

• Thermal contact resistance is observed to decrease with decreasing

surface roughness and increasing interface pressure.

• The thermal contact resistance can be minimized by applying a

thermally conducting liquid called a thermal grease.

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 Generalized Thermal Resistance Network
• The thermal resistance concept can be used to solve steady heat transfer problems
that involve parallel layers or combined series-parallel arrangements.

• The total heat transfer of two parallel layers

T1  T2 T1  T2 1 1

Q  Q1  Q2    T1  T2    
R1 R2  R1 R2 

1 1 1  R1 R2
     Rtotal =
Rtotal  R1 R2  R1  R2

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 Combined Series-Parallel Arrangement

The total rate of heat transfer

Through the composite system

 T1  T
Q
Rtotal

Where
R1R2
Rtotal  R12  R3  Rconv   R3  Rconv
R1  R2
L1 L2 L3 1
R1  ; R2  ; R3  ; Rconv 
k1 A1 k2 A2 k3 A3 hA3

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 Heat Conduction in Cylinders
Consider the long cylindrical layer
Assumptions:
• the two surfaces of the cylindrical layer are
maintained at constant temperatures T1 and
T2,
• no heat generation,
• constant thermal conductivity,
• one-dimensional heat conduction.

Fourier’s law of heat conduction

 dT
Qcond ,cyl  kA (W)
dr

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 Heat Conduction in Cylinders
 dT
Qcond ,cyl   kA (W)
dr
• Separating the variables and integrating from r=r1, where T(r1)=T1, to r=r2, where
T(r2)=T2 r 2
Q cond ,cyl
T 2


r  r1
A
dr   
T T1
kdT

 T1  T2
Qcond ,cyl  2 Lk
• Substituting A =2prL and performing the integrations give ln  r2 / r1 
 T1  T2
Qcond ,cyl 
• Since the heat transfer rate is constant- Rcyl

Thermal Resistance for Cylinder :

Thermal Resistance for Sphere :

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 Thermal Resistance with Convection
Steady one-dimensional heat transfer through a cylindrical or spherical layer
that is exposed to convection on both sides

 T ,1  T ,2 (19)
Q
Rtotal
where

Rtotal  Rconv ,1  Rcyl  Rconv ,2 

1 ln  r2 / r1  1
  
 2 r1L  h1 2 Lk  2 r2 L  h2

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 Multilayered Cylinders
• Steady heat transfer through multi-
layered cylindrical or spherical shells
can be handled just like multilayered
plane.

• The steady heat transfer rate through

a three-layered composite cylinder of
length L with convection on both
sides is expressed by Eq. 19, where:

Rtotal  Rconv ,1  Rcyl ,1  Rcyl ,3  Rcyl ,3  Rconv ,2 

1 ln  r2 / r1  ln  r3 / r2  ln  r4 / r3  1
    
 2 r1L  h1 2 Lk1 2 Lk 2 2 Lk3 2 r2 L  h2
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 Critical Radius of Insulation

• Adding more insulation to a wall or to the attic always decreases heat

transfer.

• Adding insulation to a cylindrical pipe or a spherical shell, however, is a

different matter.

• Adding insulation increases the conduction resistance of the insulation

layer but decreases the convection resistance of the surface because of
the increase in the outer surface area for convection.

• The heat transfer from the pipe may increase or decrease, depending on
which effect dominates.

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 Critical Radius of Insulation
• A cylindrical pipe of outer radius r1
whose outer surface temperature T1 is
maintained constant.
• The pipe is covered with an insulator
(k and r2).
• Convection heat transfer at T∞ and h.
• The rate of heat transfer from the insulated
pipe to the surrounding air can be
expressed asT1  T T1  T

Q 
Rins  Rconv ln  r2 / r1  1

2 Lk h  2 r2 L 
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 Critical Radius of Insulation
• The variation of the heat transfer rate with
the outer radius of the insulation r2 is shown
in the figure. Q 

• The value of r2 at which reaches a

maximum is determined by

dQ
0
dr2
• Performing the differentiation and solving
for r2 yields
k
rcr ,cylinder  (m)
h
• Thus, insulating the pipe may actually increase
the rate of heat transfer instead of decreasing it.
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