Introduction to Transient Conduction and Convection
University: University of California, Santa Barbara This set of experiments is designed to provide an introduction to unsteady conduction and to the effect of various types of convective boundary conditions on the cooling of a sphere. The primary type of measurement students make is recording the center temperature of a sphere as a function of time. Students examine the difference between natural and forced convection in both liquids and gases, look at the effect of the thermal conductivity of the material, and study the usefulness of the lumped capacitance method of analysis. |
