Surface Conductance of Mild Steel?
Surface Conductance of Mild Steel?
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Hi all,
I am having issues trying to work out a value needed to formulate the Biot number which is needed to work out what temperature a bath of water would have to be kept at to cool a specific amount of mild steel in an allotted period of time. (Quite a mouthful, I know)
So far I have worked out the following:
K = 43w/(m.k)
Cp = 620 J/(Kg.K)
SpGr = 7.86ps OR 7860Kg/m3
Cylinder volume = 0.00216 m2
Cylinder Surface = 0.177 m2
From this I am close to working out the Biot number, but to do so I need the unit surface conductance of my specific size of mild steel, which is worked out by the Thermal transmittance, Φ = A × U × (T1 - T2)
To do this I need to calculate the U-Value, which involves working out the Lambda Value which is where I get lost...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
I am having issues trying to work out a value needed to formulate the Biot number which is needed to work out what temperature a bath of water would have to be kept at to cool a specific amount of mild steel in an allotted period of time. (Quite a mouthful, I know)
So far I have worked out the following:
K = 43w/(m.k)
Cp = 620 J/(Kg.K)
SpGr = 7.86ps OR 7860Kg/m3
Cylinder volume = 0.00216 m2
Cylinder Surface = 0.177 m2
From this I am close to working out the Biot number, but to do so I need the unit surface conductance of my specific size of mild steel, which is worked out by the Thermal transmittance, Φ = A × U × (T1 - T2)
To do this I need to calculate the U-Value, which involves working out the Lambda Value which is where I get lost...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,





RE: Surface Conductance of Mild Steel?
Tunalover
RE: Surface Conductance of Mild Steel?
Where:
h expressed in [W/m2/K] or equivalent units is heat transfer coefficient between the fluid (water in your case) and the body (steel bar in your case). *
Lc expressed in [m] or equivalent units is characteristic length of the body (generally Volume/Transverse area).
k expressed in [W/m/K] or equivalent units is thermal conductivity of the body.
I am struggling to work out h.
RE: Surface Conductance of Mild Steel?
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