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    This document summarizes a problem from a thermodynamics textbook about determining the conditions needed to maintain a linear radial temperature distribution in a long circular tube with internal energy generation. It states that for a one-dimensional, steady-state system with constant properties, the temperature distribution can be linear if the internal heat generation rate varies inversely with radial location as q& = −Ck/r, where C is the constant slope of the linear temperature profile.

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    This document summarizes a problem from a thermodynamics textbook about determining the conditions needed to maintain a linear radial temperature distribution in a long circular tube with internal energy generation. It states that for a one-dimensional, steady-state system with constant properties, the temperature distribution can be linear if the internal heat generation rate varies inversely with radial location as q& = −Ck/r, where C is the constant slope of the linear temperature profile.

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    PROBLEM 2.

    47

    KNOWN: Inner and outer radii and surface temperatures of a long circular tube with internal energy
    generation.

    FIND: Conditions for which a linear radial temperature distribution may be maintained.

    SCHEMATIC:

    ASSUMPTIONS: (1) One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, (2) Constant properties.

    ANALYSIS: For the assumed conditions, Eq. 2.26 reduces to

    k d dT
    r + q& = 0
    r dr dr

    If q& = 0 or q& = constant, it is clearly impossible to have a linear radial temperature distribution.
    However, we may use the heat equation to infer a special form of q& (r) for which dT/dr is a constant (call
    it C1). It follows that

    k d
    ( r C1 ) + q& = 0
    r dr
    Ck
    q& = 1
    r
    <
    where C1 = (T2 - T1)/(r2 - r1). Hence, if the generation rate varies inversely with radial location, the radial
    temperature distribution is linear.

    COMMENTS: Conditions for which q& (1/r) would be unusual.

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