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Thermal Circuits: Contact Resistance

Explore the concepts of contact resistance, fins, Bessel equations, fin performance parameters, and thermal circuit equivalents in heat transfer engineering. Learn how these elements impact heat exchange processes in various applications.

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Thermal Circuits: Contact Resistance

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  1. Thermal Circuits: Contact Resistance In the real world, two surfaces in contact do not transfer heat perfectly Contact Resistance: values depend on materials (A and B), surface roughness, interstitial conditions, and contact pressure typically calculated or looked up Equivalent total thermal resistance:

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  4. Fins: Overview Straight fins of (a) uniform and (b) non-uniform cross sections; (c) annular fin, and (d) pin fin of non-uniform cross section. • Fins • extended surfaces that enhance fluid heat transfer to/from a surface in large part by increasing the effective surface area of the body • combine conduction through the fin and convection to/from the fin • the conduction is assumed to be one-dimensional • Applications • fins are often used to enhance convection when h is small (a gas as the working fluid) • fins can also be used to increase the surface area for radiation • radiators (cars), heat sinks (PCs), heat exchangers (power plants), nature (stegosaurus)

  5. Fins: The Fin Equation • Solutions

  6. Bessel Equations Form of Bessel equation of order  with solution J = Bessel function of first kind of order  Y = Bessel function of second kind of order  Form of modified Bessel equation of order  with solution I = modified Bessel function of first kind of order  K = modified Bessel function of second kind of order 

  7. Bessel Functions – Recurrence Relations OR AND

  8. Fins: Fin Performance Parameters • Fin Efficiency • the ratio of actual amount of heat removed by a fin to the ideal amount of heat removed if the fin was an isothermal body at the base temperature • that is, the ratio the actual heat transfer from the fin to ideal heat transfer from the fin if the fin had no conduction resistance • Fin Effectiveness • ratio of the fin heat transfer rate to the heat transfer rate that would exist without the fin • Fin Resistance • defined using the temperature difference between the base and fluid as the driving potential

  9. Fins: Efficiency

  10. Fins: Efficiency

  11. Fins: Arrays • Arrays • total surface area • total heat rate • overall surface efficiency • overall surface resistance

  12. Fins: Thermal Circuit Equivalent Thermal Circuit Effect of Surface Contact Resistance

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