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This document provides 4 heat transfer problems to solve using numerical methods. Students are to apply finite difference techniques like explicit methods to determine temperatures over time for problems involving conduction in shafts, fins, and plates with various boundary conditions.

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ME44004 HW#4 (201819s2)

This document provides 4 heat transfer problems to solve using numerical methods. Students are to apply finite difference techniques like explicit methods to determine temperatures over time for problems involving conduction in shafts, fins, and plates with various boundary conditions.

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ME44004 (Heat and Mass Transfer) (2018/19 S2)

HW#4 for Chapter 7- Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer


Due Date: April 23, 2019 (by 9:45 pm at Rm FG622, General Office Drop Boxes) (MUST!!)
(No late HW#4 submission will be accepted!)
You should also make a copy of your own HW#4 answer script before submitting it to me too.

Intended Learning Outcomes:


Students will able to apply the heat transfer equations to steady and unsteady conditions using
numerical techniques.

Problems are extracted from the Compulsory Textbook, Cengel Y.A & Ghajar A.J., Heat
and Mass Transfer-Fundamentals and Applications, 5th Edition in SI Units, McGraw Hill
(QC320.C462 2015 in PolyU Reserve Collection Area).

Q1. A DC motor delivers mechanical power to a rotating stainless steel shaft (k = 15.1 W/m·K)
with a length of 25 cm and a diameter of 25 mm as shown in Fig. Q1. The DC motor is
in a surrounding with ambient air temperature of 20°C and convection heat transfer
coefficient of 25 W/m2·K, and the base temperature of the motor shaft is 90°C. Using a
uniform nodal spacing of 5 cm along the motor shaft, determine the finite difference
equations and the nodal temperatures by solving those equations.

Fig. Q1.

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Q2. Consider steady two-dimensional heat transfer in a V-grooved solid body whose cross
section is given in the Fig. Q2. The top surfaces of the groove are maintained at 0 °C
while the bottom surface is maintained at 100° C. The side surfaces of the groove are
insulated. Using the finite difference method with a mesh size of x = y = 1m and taking
advantage of symmetry, determine the temperatures at the middle of the insulated
surfaces.

Fig. Q2.

Q3. A hot surface at 120°C is to be cooled by attaching 8 cm long, 0.8 cm in diameter


aluminum pin fins (k = 237 W/m·K and α = 97.1×106 m2/s) to it with a center-to-center
distance of 1.6 cm as shown in Fig. Q3. The temperature of the surrounding medium is
15 °C, and the heat transfer coefficient on the surfaces is 35 W/m2·K. Initially, the fins
are at a uniform temperature of 30°C, and at time t = 0 s, the temperature of the hot surface
is raised to 120 °C. Assuming one-dimensional heat conduction along the fin and taking
the nodal spacing to be x = 2 cm and a time step to be t = 1 s, determine the nodal
temperatures after 10 min by using the explicit finite difference method. Also, determine
how long it will take for steady conditions to be reached.

Fig. Q3.

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Q4. A hot brass plate is having its upper surface cooled by impinging jet of air at temperature
of 15 °C and convection heat transfer coefficient of 220 W/m2·K as shown in Fig. Q4.
The 10-cm thick brass plate ( = 8530 kg/m3, cp = 380 J/kg·K, k = 110 W/m·K, and
α = 33.9×106 m2/s) had a uniform initial temperature of 650 °C, and the lower surface
of the plate is insulated. Using a uniform nodal spacing of x = 2.5 cm determine
(a) the explicit finite difference equations, (b) the maximum allowable value of the time
step, (c) the temperature at the center plane of the brass plate after 1 minute of cooling.

Fig. Q4.

April 9, 2019/TLC

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