THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING

(An Autonomous Institute Under VTU)

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Manandavadi Road, Mysore-570008, Karnataka, India.
Estd: 1946 Phone: 0821-4004930, Fax: 0821-2485802, Email: [email protected]
Dr. T.N.Shridhar Date: 20-04-2021
Professor

SUB: HEAT TRANSFER [ME0424] SEM : VI ‘A’ & ‘B’ Sec.

TUTORIAL SHEET – 1

Heat flux through a wood slab 50 mm thick, whose inner and outer surface temperatures are
1).
40 0 C and 20 0 C respectively, has been determined to be 40 W/m2. What is the thermal
conductivity of the wood slab?

2) A concrete wall, which has a surface area of 20 m2 and thickness 30 cm, separates conditioned
room air from ambient air.The temperature of the inner surface of the wall is 25 0 C and the
thermal conductivity of the wall is 1.5 W / (m-K).Determine the heat loss through the wall for
ambient temperature varying from ─15 0 C to 38 0 C which correspond to winter and summer
conditions and display your results graphically.

3) What is the thickness required of a masonry wall having a thermal conductivity of

0.75 W/(m-K), if the heat transfer rate is to be 80 % of the rate through another wall having
thermal conductivity of 0.25 W/(m-K) and a thickness of 100 mm? Both walls are subjected to
the same temperature difference.

4) Air at 40 0 C flows over a long circular cylinder of 25 mm diameter with an embedded

electrical heater. In a series of tests, measurements were made of power per unit length, P
required to maintain the surface temperature of the cylinder at 300 0 C for different stream
velocities V of the air. The results are as follows:

Air velocity, V (m/s): 1 2 4 8 12

Power, P (W/m): 450 658 983 1507 1963

a) Determine the convective heat transfer coefficient for each velocity and display your results
graphically. (h = P / 20.43)
(b) Assuming the dependence of the heat transfer coefficient on velocity to be of the
form h = CV n, determine the parameters C and n from the results of part (a).

5) A large surface at 500C is exposed to air at 200C. If the heat transfer coefficient between the
surface and the air is 15 W/(m2-K), determine the heat transferred from 5 m2 of the surface area
in 7 hours.
6) A 25 cm diameter sphere at 1200C is suspended in air at 200C. If the convective heat transfer
coefficient between the surface and air is 15 W/(m2-K), determine the heat loss from the sphere.

7) A sphere 10 cm in diameter is suspended inside a large evacuated chamber whose walls are
kept at 300 K. If the surface of the sphere is black and maintained at 500 K what would be the
radiation heat loss from the sphere to the walls of the chamber?. What would be the heat loss if
the surface of the sphere has an emissivity of 0.8?

8) A vacuum system as used in sputtering conducting thin films on micro circuits, consists of a
base plate maintained at a temperature of 300 K by an electric heater and a shroud within the
enclosure maintained at 77 K by circulating liquid nitrogen. The base plate insulated on the
lower side is 0.3 m in diameter and has an emissivity of 0.25.
(a) How much electrical power must be provided to the base plate heater?
(b) At what rate must liquid nitrogen be supplied to the shroud if its latent heat of vaporization is
125 kJ/kg?

9) A flat plate has one surface insulated and the other surface exposed to the sun. The exposed
surface absorbs the solar radiation at a rate of 800 W/m2 and dissipates heat by both convection
and radiation into the ambient at 300 K. If the emissivity of the surface is 0.9 and the surface
heat transfer coefficient is 12 W/m2-K), determine the surface temperature of the plate.

10) The solar radiation incident on the outside surface of an aluminum shading device is
1000 W/m2. Aluminum absorbs 12 % of the incident solar energy and dissipates it by
convection from the back surface and by combined convection and radiation from the outer
surface. The emissivity of aluminum is 0.10 and the convective heat transfer coefficient for both
the surfaces is 15 W/m2 –K). The ambient temperature of air may be taken as 20 0 C. Determine
the temperature of the shading device.
 THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
(An Autonomous Institute Under VTU)
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Estd: 1946 Manandavadi Road, Mysore-570008, Karnataka, India.
Phone: 0821-4004930, Fax: 0821-2485802, Email: [email protected]
Dr. T.N.Shridhar Date : 20-04-2021
Professor

SUB: HEAT TRANSFER [ME0424] SEM : VI ‘A’ & ‘B’ Sec.

TUTORIAL SHEET – 2

1) Consider a slab of thickness L=0.25m. One surface is kept at 1000C and the other surface at
00C. Determine the heat flux across this slab if the slab is made from i) pure copper(K=386
W/m-0C) ii) Pure Aluminium ( K=203 W/m-0C) iii) Pure iron (K=73 W/m-0C) iv) Building
Brick (K=1.4 W/m-0C) v) Cement (K=0.7 W/m-0C) and vi) Loosely packed asbestos (K=0.15
W/m-0C)

2) Determine the steady state heat flux through a 0.2m thick brick wall (K=0.6 W/m-0C) with
one surface at 300Cand the other at -200C

3) What is the total rate of heat loss per hour from a 0.5m x 0.5m x 1m container having 50mm
thick walls made of an insulated material of K=0.04 W/m-0C for a temperature difference of
300C between the inside and outside? Neglect the thermal resistances for the heat transfer
coefficient at the inside and outside surfaces.

4) Draw the thermal circuit for the conduction through the composite wall shown in fig.1. Also
obtain an expression for the rate of heat transfer through the composite wall.

5) A composite wall of height ’H’ and unit length normal to the page is insulated at its ends and
is composed of four different materials arranged as shown in Fig. 2 i) Sketch the thermal circuit
of the system. ii) Consider a wall for which H=3m, HB=HC=1.5m, L1=0.1m, KA=KD =
50 W/m-0C, KB=10 W/m-0C, KC=1 W/m-0C. Under conditions for which Ti =4730 K,
hi= 50 W/m2-0C, T0 =2980 K, h0=10 W/m2-0C, what is the rate of heat transfer through the wall?
What are the interface temperatures T1 and T2?

6) A house has a composite wall of wood, fibre-glass insulation and plaster board as shown in
the Fig.3. On a cold winter day the convection heat transfer coefficients are h0 =60 W/m2-0C and
hi =30 W/m2-0C. The total wall surface area is 350m.i) Determine an expression for the total
resistance of the wall including inside and outside convection effects for the prescribed
conditions. ii) Determine the total heat loss through the wall. iii) If the wind were blowing
violently raising h0=300 W/m2-0C, determine the percentage increase in the heat loss. iv) Which
is the controlling resistance that determines the amount of heat flow through the wall?
7) The wall of a cold storage consists of three layers- an outer layer of ordinary bricks, 250mm
thick, a middle layer of cork, 100mm thick and an inner layer of cement 60mm thick. The
thermal conductivities of the materials are brick = 0.7 W/m-0C, cork = 0.043 W/m-0C and
cement = 0.72 W/m-0C. The temperature of the outer surface of the wall is 300C and that of the
inner is -15oC. Calculate i)the steady state rate of heat gain per unit area of the wall ii) the
temperatures at the interfaces of the composite wall and iii) the percentages of the total heat
transfer resistances offered by the individual layers.
What additional thickness of the cork should be provided to make the rate of heat transfer
30% less than the present value?

8) The wall of a house in a cold region consists of three layers- an outer brick work of 150mm
thickness and an inner wooden panel of 12mm thickness. The intermediate layer is made of an
insulating material 70mm thick. The thermal conductivities of the brick and the wood are
0.7 W/m-0C and 0.18 W/m-0C. The inside and outside temperatures of the composite wall are
210-C and 150C respectively. If the layer of insulation offers twice the thermal resistance of the
brick wall, i) Calculate the rate of heat loss per unit area of the wall and ii) The thermal
conductivity of the insulating material.

9) An exterior wall of a house may be approximated by a 0.1m layer of common brick(K=0.7

W/m-0C) followed by a 0.04m layer of gypsum plaster(K=0.48 W/m-0C). What thickness of
loosely packed Rockwell insulation (K=0.065 W/m-0C) should be added to reduce the heat loss
or (gain) through the wall by 80%?

Fig 1

Fig 3

Fig 2