Temperature and heat-flux distributions in a strip-heated composite slab
Abstract
An analytical solution is obtained by simultaneously solving the steady energy equations for both constituents of a composite slab medium, emphasizing the heat flux distribution at the convectively cooled side of the slab. On the basis of an approximate analytical solution, a design procedure to determine the strip heater spacing necessary for a prescribed maximum variation in heat flux at this surface is developed. Expressions for steady temperature and heat flux are also obtained for the limiting cases of infinite heat transfer coefficient and zero-thickness substrate.
- Publication:
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ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
- Pub Date:
- February 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986ATJHT.108..226J
- Keywords:
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- Composite Structures;
- Heat Flux;
- Heaters;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Approximation;
- Slabs;
- Strip;
- Thermal Conductivity;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer