Heat Chap15-071.doc

Air Cooling: Natural Convection and Radiation 15-71C As the student watches the movie, the temperature of the electronic components in the VCR will keep increasing because of the blocked air passages. The VCR eventually may overheat and fail. 15-72C There is no natural convection in space because of the absence of gravity (and because of the absence of a medium outside). However, it can be cooled by radiation since radiation does not need a medium. 15-73C The openings on the side surfaces of a TV, VCR or other electronic enclosures provide passage ways for the cold air to enter and warm air to leave. If a TV or VCR is enclosed in a cabinet with no free space around, and if there is no other cooling process involved, the temperature of device will keep rising due to the heat generation in device, which may cause the device to fail eventually. 15-74C The magnitude of radiation, in general, is comparable to the magnitude of natural convection. Therefore, radiation heat transfer should be always considered in the analysis of natural convection cooled electronic equipment. 15-75C The effect of atmospheric pressure to heat transfer coefficient can be written as where P is the air pressure in atmosphere. Therefore, the greater the air pressure, the greater the heat transfer coefficient. The best and the worst orientation for heat transfer from a square surface are vertical and horizontal, respectively, since the former maximizes and the latter minimizes natural convection. 15-76C The view factor from surface 1 to surface 2 is the fraction of radiation which leaves surface 1 and strikes surface 2 directly. The magnitude of radiation heat transfer between two surfaces is proportional to the view factor. The larger the view factor, the larger the radiation exchange between the two surfaces. 15-77C Emissivity of a surface is the ratio of the radiation emitted by a surface at a specified temperature to the radiation emitted by a blackbody (which is the maximu