Heat transfer

1. What are the three modes of heat transfer?

2. What is coefficient of thermal conduction?
3. State the types of convection.
4. What is specific heat?
5. What is thermal diffusivity?
6. What is thermal radiation?
7. What is a blackbody?
8. What is Prandtl number?
9. What is hydrodynamic boundary layer?
10. What is conduction?
11. What does “conductor of heat” mean?
12. Name three heat insulators.
13. Why does hot air rise and cold air sink?
14. What is temperature?
15. Why the materials expand when heated?
16. If Reynold’s number of a fluid is small, what will be the fluid density, velocity and viscosity?
17. State any two methods to enhance the convection heat transfer in internal flows?
18. How can enhancement of convection heat transfer in internal flows be achieved?
19. On which parameters does drag on a sphere depend?
20. Can radiation travel through a vacuum?
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25. Following equation is for which mode of heat transfer?

ΔT
Q=kA ( )
L
t
a. convection
b. conduction
 c. radiation
d. Both a & c
26. When heat flow is achieved by actual mixing o warmer portions with cooler portions of the same material, the
process is known as ________________.
a. convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. mixing
27. Pan evaporators are an example of _____________.
a. forced convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. natural convection
28. Tube evaporators are an example of _____________.
a. forced convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. natural convection
29. _________ is the ratio between total heat transfer in a convection dominated system and the estimated
conductive heat transfer.
a. Nusselt number
b. Biot number
c. Prandtl number
d. Grashof number
30. _________ is the ratio between buoyancy forces and viscous forces.
a. Nusselt number
b. Rayleigh number
c. Reynold number
d. Grashof number
31. When boundary layer changes from laminar flow to turbulent flow it is referred to as _____________.
a. transfer
b. transition
c. hydrodynamic boundary layer
d. thermal boundary layer
32. In a steam power plant _____________ heat transfer is used to remove heat from heat transfer surface.
a. conductive
b. radiatve
c. convective
d. hydrodynamic
33. _________ is a dimensionless parameter that indicates the relative importance of conduction and convection
heat processes.
a. Biot number
b. Rayleigh number
c. Prandtl number
d. Grashof number
34. The transfer of heat in rays from a hot object without needing a medium to pass through is called
________________.
a. convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. Both a & b.
35. ______________ is the heat transfer mode in which fluid particles move upward carrying heat with them.
a. convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. Both a & b.
36. If an object becomes colder, it means that it has ____________.
a. gained energy
b. radiated
c. lost energy
d. insulated

37. Heat from sun is an example of ________________.

a. forced convection
b. conduction
 c. radiation
d. natural convection
38. The Rayleigh number governs ______________ phenomena.
a. forced convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. natural convection
39. Which of the following is not a classification of boiling.
a. Film boiling
b. Bulk boiling
c. Nuclear boiling
d. Staged boiling
40. Boundary layer thickness is the distance from surface to _________________ velocity of fluid.
a. 96%
b. 93%
c. 95%
d. 99%

41. _________ is the connecting link between velocity field and temperature field.
a. Biot number
b. Rayleigh number
c. Prandtl number
d. Grashof number
42. The low density of a fluid at a _____________ causes buoyancy forces.
a. higher pressure
b. higher temperature
c. lower temperature
d. lower pressure
43. Below equation is representation of which of the following?
q's' =h (T s−T ∞ )
a. convection
b. conduction
c. Newton law of cooling
d. Both a & c
44. Reynold number for a fluid having high density, high velocity and a low viscosity will be ________.
a. small
b. large
c. 1000
d. 2300
45. If a Prandtl number is small, ___________ is relatively large.
a. viscosity
b. momentum boundary layer
c. thermal boundary layer
d. buoyance force
46. _________ represents an unsteady flow, characterized by random velocity, pressure, temperature fluctuations in
the fluid due to small-scale eddies.
a. Laminar
b. Turbulence
c. Transition
d. Boundary layer thickness
47. _________ flow leads to higher convection heat transfer rates.
a. Laminar
b. Turbulent
c. Transition
d. Smooth
48. Higher Grashof number means increased _____________ flow.
a. forced convection
b. conduction
c. radiation
d. natural convection

49. In forced convection the nusselt number depends on _______________ numbers.

a. Grashof & Prandtl
b. Reynold & Prandlt
 c. Grashof & Reynold
d. Reynold & Rayleigh
50. In free convection the nusselt number depends on _______________ numbers.
e. Grashof & Prandtl
f. Reynold & Prandlt
g. Grashof & Reynold
h. Reynold & Rayleigh