Flat Plate Boundary Layer
... mounted in a parallel arrangement. The fins conduct the heat from the tubes and transfer it to the air flowing through the radiator. The tubes sometimes have a type of fin inserted into them called a turbulator, which increases the turbulence of the fluid flowing through the tubes. If the fluid flow ...
... mounted in a parallel arrangement. The fins conduct the heat from the tubes and transfer it to the air flowing through the radiator. The tubes sometimes have a type of fin inserted into them called a turbulator, which increases the turbulence of the fluid flowing through the tubes. If the fluid flow ...
CHAPTER 10 NOTES FOR EIGHTH GRADE PHYSICAL SCIENCE
... DEGREE CELSIUS IS THE METRIC UNIT MOST OFTEN USED TO MEASURE TEMPERATURE. WATER FREEZES AT 0 DEGREES C. AND BOILS AT 100 DEGREES C. ANOTHER METRIC TEMPERATURE SCALE OFTEN USED BY SCIENCTISTS IS THE KELVIN SCALE. TO CONVERT CELSIUS DEGREES TO KELVIN, SIMPLY BY ADDING 273 DEGREES TO THE CELSIUS TEMPER ...
... DEGREE CELSIUS IS THE METRIC UNIT MOST OFTEN USED TO MEASURE TEMPERATURE. WATER FREEZES AT 0 DEGREES C. AND BOILS AT 100 DEGREES C. ANOTHER METRIC TEMPERATURE SCALE OFTEN USED BY SCIENCTISTS IS THE KELVIN SCALE. TO CONVERT CELSIUS DEGREES TO KELVIN, SIMPLY BY ADDING 273 DEGREES TO THE CELSIUS TEMPER ...
Heat pipe
A heat pipe is a heat-transfer device that combines the principles of both thermal conductivity and phase transition to efficiently manage the transfer of heat between two solid interfaces.At the hot interface of a heat pipe a liquid in contact with a thermally conductive solid surface turns into a vapor by absorbing heat from that surface. The vapor then travels along the heat pipe to the cold interface and condenses back into a liquid - releasing the latent heat. The liquid then returns to the hot interface through either capillary action, centrifugal force, or gravity, and the cycle repeats. Due to the very high heat transfer coefficients for boiling and condensation, heat pipes are highly effective thermal conductors. The effective thermal conductivity varies with heat pipe length, and can approach 7002100000000000000♠100 kW/(m⋅K) for long heat pipes, in comparison with approximately 6999400000000000000♠0.4 kW/(m⋅K) for copper.