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Convection Experiment Leader: Tom Salerno Partners: Greg Rothsching Stephen Johnson Jen DiRocco What will you hear today? Introduction Theory Equipment and Procedure Results and Discussion Conclusions Questions Introduction What is convection? Heat transfer from fluid flowing over solid surface Why study convection? Occurs in almost every process plant Example: Heat Exchangers, Tray Dryers, etc. Theory – Newton’s Law of Cooling Flat Plate: Finned Plate (Resistances in Parallel): Theory – Forced Convection Physical Situation: Solving Boundary Layer Equations Continuity Equation - Momentum Balance - Thermal Balance – Rigorous analytical solution Theory – Forced Convection Forced Convection – analytically developed Dimensionless Parameters Reynolds: Prandtl: Nusselt: Flat Plate: Theory - Natural Convection Physical Situation: New Momentum Equation: Must now solve all three boundary layer equations simultaneously Theory - Natural Convection Experimental Correlation: Churchill and Chu Dimensionless Parameters Grashoff: Rayleigh: Correlation: Equipment and Procedure Results and Discussions Flat Plate: Laminar Flow Results and Discussions Turbulent Mix New Correlation - Results and Discussions Flat Plate: Turbulent Mix Results and Discussions Finned Plate: Laminar Results and Discussions Turbulent Mix New Correlation - Results and Discussions Finned Plate: Turbulent Mix Results and Discussions Effectiveness of Fin Addition Conclusions – What we learned The convective heat transfer coefficient increases linearly with the square root of air velocity Predictive Equations are useful for predicting trend in data, but not the absolute numbers Natural Convection is the limit to forced convection, though it is difficult to predict The addition of fins will increase the heat transfer rate substantially at low air velocities, but not as much at higher air velocities Conclusions – Significance? Aid in design of heat exchangers How to i