Assignment-1

Heat & Mass Transfer TME-501

NOTE: Attempt all questions. DOS:16/Aug/2017
Q-1 Define heat transfer and also differentiates heat transfer and thermodynamics.
Q-2 Name and explain briefly the various modes of heat transfer.
Q-3What is Fourier law of heat conduction, Newtons law of cooling and Stefan Boltzmann law?
Q-4 What is the concept of thermal resistance? Also explain the analogy between heat and
electricity flow.
Q-5 The inner surface of a plane brick wall is at 40C and the outer surface is at 20C. Calculate
the rate of heat transfer per m2 of surface area of the wall, which is 250 mm thick. The thermal
conductivity of the brick is 0.52 W/m C.
Q-6 Determine the heat transfer by convection over a surface of 0.75m 2 if the surface is at 200 C
and the fluid is at 80 C. The value of convective heat transfer is 25 W/m2 C.
Q-7 Obtain an expression for general heat conduction equation in rectangular coordinates.
Q-8 Define thermal contact resistance and overall heat transfer coefficient.
Assignment-2
Heat & Mass Transfer TME-501
NOTE: Attempt all questions. DOS: 02/Sep/2017
Q-1 Obtain an expression for general heat conduction equation in polar coordinates.
Q-2 The temperatures at the inner and outer surfaces of a boiler wall made of 20 mm thick steel
and covered with an insulating material of 5 mm thickness are 300 C and 50 C respectively. If
the thermal conductivities of steel and insulating material are 58 W/m C and 0.116 W/m C
respectively, determine the rate of heat flow through the boiler wall.
Q-3 An exterior wall of a house may be approximated by a 0.1 m layer of common brick (k = 0.7
W/m C) followed by a 0.04m layer of gypsum plaster (k = 0.48 W/m C).What thickness of
loosely packed rock wool insulation (k = 0.065 W/m C) should be added to reduce the heat loss
or (gain) through the wall by 80 percent?
Q-4 Derive expression for temperature distribution under one dimensional steady state heat
conduction for cylinder and sphere.
Q-5 A steam pipe of 160 mm inside diameter and 5 mm thick having k = 58 W/m C is covered
with first layer of insulating material 30 mm thick having k = 0.17 W/m C and second layer of
insulating material 50 mm thick having k = 0.093 W/m C. The temperature of the steam passing
through the pipe is 300 C and ambient air temperature surrounding the pipe is 30 C. Taking
inner and outer heat transfer coefficients 30 and 5.8 W/m 2 C respectively, find the heat lost per
meter length of pipe.
Q-6 Define critical thickness of radius and derive an expression for critical thickness of radius
for a sphere. A wire of 6.5 mm diameter at a temperature of 60 C is to be insulated by a material
having k = 0.174 W/m C. Convection heat transfer coefficient (h 0) = 8.722 W/m2 C. The
ambient temperature is 20 C. For maximum heat loss, what is the minimum thickness of
insulation and heat loss per meter loss? Also find percentage increase in heat dissipation too.

Q-7 Define a fin and also obtained the expression for temperature distribution and heat flow rate
in a rectangular fin. Calculate the amount of energy required to solder two very long pieces of
bare copper wire 1.625 mm in diameter with solder that melts at 195 C. The wires are positioned
vertically in air at 24 C. Assume the heat transfer coefficient on the wire surface is 17 W/m 2 C
and thermal conductivity of wire alloy is 335W/m C.

Q-8 Define efficiency and effectiveness of the fin and developed a relation between them.
 Assignment-3
Heat & Mass Transfer TME-501
NOTE: Attempt all questions. DOS: / /2017
Q-1 Derive an expression of the rate of heat transfer for Lumped capacitance method.

Q-2 A 50 cm 50 cm copper slab 6.25 mm thick has a uniform temperature of 300 C. Its temperature is
suddenly lowered to 36 C. Calculate the time required for the plate to reach the temperature of 108 C.
Take = 9000 kg/m3, c = 0.38 kJ/kg C, k = 370 W/m C and h = 90 W/m2 C.

Q-3 Explain the boundary layer over a flat plate with neat sketch.\

Q-4 Derive Von Karman integral momentum equation.

Q-5 Explain the mechanism of forced convection and free convection.

Q-6 Air at 20 C and at a pressure of 1 bar is flowing over a flat plate at a velocity of 3 m/s. The plate is
280 mm wide and 280 mm in length and maintained at 56 C. The properties of air at bulk mean
temperature are given as: = 1.1374 kg/m 3, k = 0.02732 W/m C, c p= 1.005 kJ/kgK, = 16.768 10 -6
m2/s, Pr = 0.7. Determine: (a) Flow is laminar or turbulent, (b) Boundary layer thickness, (c) Thermal
boundary layer thickness, (d) Local convective heat transfer coefficient, (e) Average convective heat
transfer coefficient, (f) Rate of heat transfer by convection, (g) Local friction coefficient, (h) Average
friction coefficient.

Q-7 Explain Reynolds analogy for forced convection.

Q-8 A cylindrical body of 300 mm diameter and 1.6 m height is maintained at a constant temperature of
36.5 C. The surrounding temperature is 13.5 C. Find out the amount of heat t be generated by the body
per hour if = 1.025 kg/m3, cp = 0.96 kJ/kg C, = 15.06 10-6 m2/s. k= 0.0892 kJ/m-h- C and = 1/
298 K-1, Assume Nu = 0.12 (Gr.Pr)1/3.