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    This document presents a heat transfer problem involving calculating the ratio of heat transfer rates between two vertical surfaces with different orientations and ambient air temperatures. The problem provides the geometry, properties, and equations needed to calculate the Rayleigh numbers and Nusselt numbers, and then the ratio of the heat transfer rates is determined to be 0.881 based on the different flow regimes and correlations used.

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    PROBLEM 9.

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    KNOWN: Heat transfer rate by convection from a vertical surface, 1m high by 0.6m wide, to quiescent air that is 20K cooler. FIND: Ratio of the heat transfer rate for the above case to that for a vertical surface that is 0.6m high by 1m wide with quiescent air that is 20K warmer. SCHEMATIC:

    ASSUMPTIONS: (1) Thermophysical properties independent of temperature; evaluate at 300K; (2) Negligible radiation exchange with surroundings, (3) Quiescent ambient air. -6 2 -6 2 PROPERTIES: Table A-4, Air (300K, 1 atm): = 15.89 10 m /s, = 22.5 10 m /s. ANALYSIS: The rate equation for convection between the plates and quiescent air is

    q = h L A s T

    (1)

    where T is either (Ts - T) or (T - Ts); for both cases, As = Lw. The desired heat transfer ratio is then

    q1 h L1 = . q 2 h L2
    To determine the dependence of h L on geometry, first calculate the Rayleigh number,

    (2)

    Ra L = g TL3 /

    (3)

    and substituting property values at 300K, find, 2 3 -6 2 -6 2 9 Case 1: RaL1 = 9.8 m/s (1/300K) 20K (1m) /15.89 10 m /s 22.5 10 m /s = 1.82 10 3 4 3 8 Case 2: RaL2 = RaL1 (L2/L1) = 1.82 10 (0.6m/1.0m) = 3.94 10 . Hence, Case 1 is turbulent and Case 2 is laminar. Using the correlation of Eq. 9.24,

    h L n Nu L = L = C ( Ra L ) k

    hL =

    k n C Ra L L

    (4)

    where for Case 1: C1 = 0.10, n1 = 1/3 and for Case 2: C2 = 0.59, n2 = 1/4. Substituting Eq. (4) into the ratio of Eq. (2) with numerical values, find

    q1 = q2

    ( C1 / L1 ) Ra L1
    n2 ( C2 / L2 ) Ra L2

    n1

    ( 0.10 /1m ) 1.82 109

    1/ 4 ( 0.59 / 0.6m ) 3.94 108

    1/ 3

    = 0.881

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    COMMENTS: Is this result to be expected? How do you explain this effect of plate orientation on the heat rates?

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