Chapter 3, Problem 3.27P

The author and his then 6-year-old son have conducted the following experiment to determine the thermal conductivity of a hot dog. They first boiled water in a large pan and measured the temperature of the boiling water to be 94°C, which is not surprising, since they live at an elevation of about 1650 m in Reno, Nevada. They then took a hot dog that is 12.5 cm long and 2.2 cm in diameter and inserted a thermocouple into the midpoint of the hot dog and another thermocouple just under the skin. They waited until both thermocouples read 20°C, which is the ambient temperature. They then dropped the hot dog into boiling water and observed the changes in both temperatures. Exactly 2 min after the hot dog was dropped into the boiling water, they recorded the center and the surface temperatures to be 59°C and 88°C, respectively. The density of the hot dog can be taken to be 980 kg/m3, which is slightly less than the density of water, since the hot dog was observed to be floating in water while…

A 2.5-cm-thick sheet of plastic initially at 20oC is placed between two heated steel plates that are maintained at 140oC. The plastic is to be heated just long enough for its mid-plane temperature to reach  130oC. If the thermal conductivity of the plastic is 1.2 x 10 -3 W/m/K, the thermal diffusivity is 2.7 x 10 -6 m2/s, and the thermal resistance at the interface between the plates and the plastic is negligible,  determine a) the required heating time, b) the temperature at a plane 0.6 cm from the steel plate at the moment the heating is discontinued, and c) the time required of the plastic to reach the temperature of 130oC at 0.6 cm from the steel plate.

A person puts a few apples into the freezer at 15°C cool them quickly for guestswho are about to arrive. Initially, the apples are at a uniform temperature of 20°C,and the heat transfer coefficient on the surfaces is 8 W/m2·K. Treating the apples as9-cm-diameter spheres and taking their properties to be 840 kg/m3, Cp 3.81 kJ/kg·K, k = 0.418 W/m·K, and α =10-7 m2/s, determine the center and surface temperatures of the apples in 1 h. Also, determine the amount of heat transfer from each apple. Solve this problem using analytical one-term approximation method (notthe Heisler charts). Answer: Center: 11.2 ℃, Surface: 2.7 ℃, heat transfer: 17.2 kJ

During a picnic on a hot summer day, the only available drinks were those at the ambient temperature of 90°F. In an effort to cool a 12-fluid-oz drink in a can, which is 5 in high and has a diameter of 2.5 in, a person grabs the can and starts shaking it in the iced water of the chest at 32°F. The temperature of the drink can be assumed to be uniform at all times, and the heat transfer coefficient between the iced water and the aluminum can is 30 Btu/h·ft2·°F. Using the properties of water for the drink, estimate how long it will take for the canned drink to cool to 40°F.

how is a three-dimensional heat equation reduced if heat transfer occurs in an insulated long, thin rod or wire of a specific length? Explain what will be the new equation?

A steel plate having a thickness of 100 mm is suddenly exposed to a hot gas at 1000 oC in a furnace. One surface of the plate is heated while the other surface of the plate can be approximated to be adiabatic. The initial temperature of the steel plate is 20 oC. The thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of the steel plate are 34.8 W/m K and 0.555 x 10-5 m2 /s respectively. The convective heat-transfer coefficient is 174 W/m2 K. a) Determine the time necessary to raise the surface temperature of the steel plate to 500 oC. b) Determine the maximum temperature difference in the cross-section of the steel plate at the time evaluated in part a) above. c) Determine the heat energy transferred to the steel plate per unit wall surface area by the time evaluated in part a) above. Use the conduction charts

A 40-cm-long, 800-W electric resistance heating element with diameter 0.5 cm and surface temperature 120°C is immersed in 75 kg of water initially at 20°C. Determine how long it will take for this heater to raise the water temperature to 80°C. Also, determine the convection heat transfer coefficients at the beginning and at the end of the heating process.

A small copper wire with a diameter of 0.792 mm and initially at 366.5 K is suddenly immersed in a liquid held constant at 311 K. The convection coefficient h = 85.2 W/m2 · K. The physical properties can be assumed constant and are k = 374 W/m · K, cp = 0.389 kJ/kg · K, and ρ = 8890 kg/m3. Determine the time in seconds for the average temperature of the wire to drop to 338.8 K (one-half the initial temperature difference). Do the same but for h=11.36W/m2·K. Forpart(b),calculate the total amount of heat removed for a wire 1.0 m long.

The 8-mm-thick bottom of a 220-mm-diameter pan may be made from aluminum (k = 240 W/m · K) or copper (k = 390 W/m · K). When used to boil water, the surface of the bottom exposed to the water is nominally at 110°C. If heat is transferred from the stove to the pan at a rate of 600 W, what is the temperature of the surface in contact with the stove for each of the two materials?