Natural and forced convection heat transfer from a plate fin
Abstract
An analysis is presented which predicts heat transfer from a vertical fin cooled by natural or forced convection. A simple procedure is developed to solve the conjugated heat transfer composed of conduction in a fin and convection from it. It is found that heat transfer of a fin for forced convection with laminar or turbulent boundary layer and for natural convection with laminar boundary layer can be expressed without parameters. Plots are given which provide an easy way to evaluate actual heat transfer for any fin.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981IJHMT..24..881K
- Keywords:
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- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Cooling Fins;
- Finned Bodies;
- Flat Plates;
- Forced Convection;
- Free Convection;
- Heat Flux;
- Laminar Boundary Layer;
- Surface Temperature;
- Turbulent Boundary Layer;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer