HEAT TRANSFER

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. What is Fourier law of conduction? State also the assumptions on which this law is based.
2. Define Thermal conductivity.
3. Write the governing laws for different modes of heat transfer.
4. State three modes of heat transfer. How they differ from heat other.
5. Define Biot Number and Fourier Number.
6. Explain briefly the term thermal capacity and thermal diffusivity of a material.
7. Explain the concept of electrical analogy in application to composite systems.
8. Define overall heat transfer coefficient.
9. What is critical radius of insulation (rc)? Write rc for cylinder & sphere?
10. What is a Fin?
11. Define efficiency & effectiveness of the fin.
12. Give the classification of fins based on cross sectional area of fins.
13. What is meant by Transient heat conduction?
14. What is lumped capacity? what are the assumptions for lumped capacity analysis?

15. Define semi infinite body.

16. What is an error function? Explain its significance in a semi infinite body.

17. What are Heisler charts? Explain the significance of it in solving transient conduction
problems.

18. State Newton's law of cooling.

19. What is Hydrodynamic Boundary Layer?

20. What is Reynolds Number? How is it useful?

21. What are the parameters on which convective heat transfer depends?

22. What are the conditions which help the flow to be laminar?

23. Define Nusselt and Prandtl Number.

24. What is a turbulent flow?

25. Show the velocity & thermal boundary layers when fluid flow over plate & in a tube?
26. Define thermal boundary layer thickness.

27. Show the variation of boundary layer, skin friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient
along a very long flat plate.
28. What is meant by hydrodynamic entry length?
29. What is Boussinesque approximation used in the analysis of free convection problems?
30. What are the uses of dimensional analysis?
31. State Buckingham's Pi theorem.
32. What is meant by Dimensional analysis?
33. Define Grashoff number.
34. Explain the significance of Fourier Number
35. Define velocity boundary layer thickness.
36. Show the variation of temperature along the length of heat exchanger for a Condenser
and Evaporator.
37. Define log-mean temperature difference.
38. Define Heat exchanger effectiveness.

39. What is overall heat transfer coefficient in a heat exchanger?

40. What are the assumptions made during LMTD analysis?
41. Draw the boiling curve clearly showing the regimes of pool boiling.
42. What is meant by sub cooled or local boiling?
43. What is meant by Boiling & Condensation?
44. Define Drop wise condensation.
45. Define Film wise condensation.
46. What are different forms in which boiling heat transfer phenomenon may occur?

47. Why nucleate boiling preferred instead of stable film boiling with radiation in pool
boiling?

48. What is burnout point in boiling?

49. Differentiate the mechanism between Film wise & Drop wise condensation?

50. Give expression for heat transfer coefficient in Nucleate boiling. .

51. What is Wein's displacement law? Explain its significance.
52. Write down the Wien's formula.
53. What is meant by Kirchhoff's law?
54. Define Emissivity of a surface.
55. Write down the Wien's formula.
56. What is black body? How does it differ from a gray body?
57. State Stefan-Boltzmann law.
58. Define the term Absorptivity, Reflectivity and Transmittivity of radiation.

59. Define shape factor.

60. What is radiation shield?

61. Give classification of Heat Exchanger?

62. Explain NTU Method, Heat Capacity, Capacity Ratio of Heat exchanger?

Set by

Mr. Dheeraj Joshi

Heat Transfer Course Co-ordinator