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convective heat transfer coeficient of air

convective heat transfer coeficient of air

convective heat transfer coeficient of air

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What is a good number to use for the convective heat transfer coeficient of air?  I'm assuming *relatively* "stagnant" air...although I guess if the air really was 100% stagnant it wouldn't convect at all...

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RE: convective heat transfer coeficient of air

For nearly ambient conditions, take 10 W/m²/°C, the double for moving air (windy, though not in a hurricane).

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RE: convective heat transfer coeficient of air

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So if I have an insulated vessel, say 4" of fiberglass in a double wall arrangement, I can I assume that between the outside surface of the *inner* wall and the fiberglass that convection is pretty much shut down (because of the fiberglass), but that between the outer skin and the ambient air, I'll have convection, that will be dependant upon the temperature of said outer skin and the ambient temperature...?

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RE: convective heat transfer coeficient of air


Holman's Heat Transfer (McGraw-Hill) 1976, pp 263, gives for air natural convection on vertical plain or cylindrical surfaces, at atmospheric pressure, the following estimates for the convection coefficient  h:

laminar : h = 1.42(ΔT/L)0.25
turbulent: h = 0.95(ΔT)0.33

h, W/m.K
ΔT, K
L, vertical dimension, m

Turbulence defined when Gr.Pr > 109

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