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2.7.1.3 Thermal contact resistance
When two surfaces are kept together, because of the presence of a surface roughness at the contacting surfaces, the gaps are invariably filled with air, and this introduces convection resistance. This is called thermal contact resistance, which reduces the heat transfer through the composite wall.
Needless to say, for maximizing the heat transfer through the composite wall, the thermal contact resistance at the interface has to be reduced.
Methods of reducing thermal contact resistance:
1.By applying high thermal conductivity gel at the interface. A gel is typically a semisolid material. When the gel is exposed to a higher temperature, it gets converted into liquid and slowly drops out and can be used for low-temperature applications.
2.Placing thin soft and high thermal conductivity metallic sheets at the interface during the assembly.
3.By increasing the contact area, by applying more pressure during assembly.
Thermal contact resistance is quite a difficult quantity to measure and, in practice, can often be a “sore thumb” in thermal system design.
2.7.2 Composite cylinder
Consider one-dimensional steady-state conduction in a composite cylinder, schematic representation of which is in Fig. 2.17. The corresponding resistance network is presented in Fig. 2.18. Geometrical details of thermophysical properties of the materials making up composite cylinder are also shown in Fig. 2.17.
Invoking, the resistance analogy, presented earlier, the total heat transfer from the inside to the outside through the cylindrical shell is given by
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FIGURE 2.18
Schematic representation of a resistance network one dimensional steady state conduction in a composite cylinder.
The total resistance Rtotal is given by
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Please note, as opposed to a plane wall, the overall heat transfer coefficient varies across the cylinder, and its specification is incomplete without a declaration of the area on which it is based.
Example 2.3: Consider a very long† cylindrical rod of 100 mm radius that consists of a nuclear-reacting material (k = 0.05 W/mK), generating 24,000 W/m3 uniformly throughout the volume (qg). This rod is enclosed within a tube having an outer radius of 200 mm, whose thermal conductivity is 4 W/mK. The outer surface is surrounded by a fluid at 100 °C and h = 20 W/m2K. Find the temperature at the interface of the two cylinders and the outer surface. A schematic representation of the given problem is shown in Fig. 2.19.
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Schematic representation of the cylindrical rod under consideration in Example 2.3.
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38CHAPTER 2 One-dimensional, steady state heat conduction
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At the center r = 0, the temperature is given by
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This example shows how we can use a “divide-and-conquer approach” to solve problems involving the third kind of boundary condition and a volumetric heat generation. Such problems are called conjugate problems, particularly when “h” at the surface also needs to be determined from, say, first-principles modeling.
2.7.3 Composite sphere
The next logical extension, as done before, is to work out the heat transfer rate from a composite spherical shell.
The cross-sectional view of a composite spherical shell is shown in Fig. 2.20 along with all the necessary details for us to be able to compute the heat transfer rate from the composite spherical shell.
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FIGURE 2.20
Schematic representation of a cross-sectional view of a composite sphere.
Under steady state conditions, and by invoking an electrical analogy, we can write out an expression for the heat transfer rate, Q, across the shell as
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Example 2.5: Consider a composite spherical shell of inner diameter 50 cm, made of lead and stainless steel with outer diameters 60 and 62 cm respectively (Fig. 2.21). The cavity contains radioactive waste that generates heat volumetrically (qv) and uniformly at the rate of 4.8 × 105 W/m3. The melting point of lead is 600 K;
klead = 35.3W/mK and kss = 15.1W/mK . The shell is kept in ambient at a temperature of 30 °C, with a convection coefficient of h = 500 W/m2K. What is the maximum tem-
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FIGURE 2.21
Schematic representation of a cross-sectional view of the composite sphere under consideration in Example 2.5.
Energy balance equation:
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Please note that we again used “divide and conquer” to solve the problem. We tried to use every bit of information that was presented in advance to simplify the problem as much as possible. As a general rule, we have to examine first if we can employ energy balance to simplify the boundary conditions. The revelation here is that without solving the original governing equation for the shell, we are not only able to obtain the overall heat transfer but are also able to get estimates of the intermediate temperatures. This is classic heat transfer engineering practice and is very quick!
2.8 One-dimensional, steady state heat conduction with heat generation
2.8.1 Plane wall with heat generation
Consider the plane wall, shown in Fig. 2.22 with a uniform volumetric heat generation, given by qv W/m3 with Dirichlet boundary condition at x = ±L. Such a situation arises in nuclear fuel rods or when chemical reactions (exothermic) take place in a medium.
42 CHAPTER 2 One-dimensional, steady state heat conduction
FIGURE 2.22
Schematic representation of a plane wall with heat generation.
We apply the following simplifying assumptions
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Eq. (2.137) tells us that the temperature distribution is quadratic. A slightly more involved version of the above problem is when we have a situation where there is a plane wall with heat generation and with convection boundary conditions, as shown in Fig. 2.23.
FIGURE 2.23
Schematic representation of a plane wall with heat generation with convection boundary conditions on both the sides.
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The governing equation remains the same as before. The boundary conditions, though, are different.
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Similarly, the heat transfer in a cylinder and sphere with internal heat generation can be derived.
Example 2.7: Consider a one-dimensional wall that uniformly generates heat at the rate of qv W/m2 whose thickness is 2L = 50 mm. The wall is made of a material whose thermal conductivity is 50 W/mK.Temperature measurements show the following relation, T(°C) = 200-2000x2. In the above expression, x is in meters. (1) Determine the volumetric heat generation rate qv in the wall. (2) Determine the heat fluxes at the two walls. (3) How are these related to the qv?
Solution:
Fig. 2.22 can be used for this problem.
Temperature symmetry about the mid-plane is clear from the given temperature distribution
