1. Chapter 3: One-Dimensional Steady-State Conduction
1-D: temperature gradients exist along only a single coordinate direction, and heat transfer occurs exclusively in that direction –approximation. Steady-state: the temperature at each point is independent of time
The Plane Wall:
The heat conduction equation (k = constant)

2. Thermal Resistance General solution: = constant = constant
B.C.’s: T(0) =Ts,1, T(L) = Ts,2
= constant
= constant
Thermal Resistance:
For conduction of electricity, Ohm’s law:
I: electric current, E: electric potential, Re: electric resistance
thermal resistance for conduction
An analogy

3.   Thermal Resistance 
In the case that Ts,1 and Ts,2 are unknown, and T,1 and T,2
are known, an energy balance at x = 0 gives
(1)
at x = L,
(2)
In the wall,
(3)

4.   Thermal Resistance
(1)+ (2)+ (3) on each side:
Let

5. Thermal Resistance Restrictions: 1-D. S.S., no heat source or sink.
The composite wall:

6. Radial Systems – the cylinder
A common example is the hollow cylinder:

7. Radial Systems – the cylinder
Eq. (2.24):
Integrate once:
B.C.’s:
= constant

8. Radial Systems – the cylinder
But
Composite cylindrical wall:

9. Heat Transfer from Extended Surfaces
Heat transfer between a solid and an adjoining fluid:
To increase q for a fixed Ts:
Increase velocity to increase h (too costly, increased blower or pumping power consumption)
Reduce
, impractical
3. Increase A  fins, for low h and smaller
Applications: Car radiators, heating units, liquid-gas, or gas-gas heat exchangers, boilers, and air-cooled engines, …

10. Extended Surfaces (Fins, Pins, or Spines)
Assumptions:
1. The transversal characteristic length, say the thickness of the fin, is small compared to the axial length,
<<1
2.The thermal conductivity is constant
3.The heat transfer coefficient is the averaged value
4.Steady state

11. Extended Surfaces (Fins, Pins, or Spines)
Let
excess temperature, P -- perimeter
This is a ODE, exact solutions exist for some functions
Fins of uniform cross-sectional area, A = Ac = constant

12. Extended Surfaces (Fins, Pins, or Spines)
The general solution is of the form:
C1, C2, -- two B.C.’s needed
Solve for C1 and C2 using the two B.C.’s
The hyperbolic functions:

13. Extended Surfaces (Fins, Pins, or Spines)

14. Fin Performance Fin effectiveness
-- ratio of the fin heat transfer rate to heat transfer rate that would exist without the fin:
The use of fins may rarely be justified unless
Subject to the infinite fin condition and for a fin of uniform cross section (case D)
(when heat transfer coefficient is small);
(use of metals);
(thin, closely spaced fins are preferred)
The above equation provides an upper limit for
For more accurate evaluation of the fin effectiveness, the relation associated with convection B.C.’s should be used (Table 3.4). In this case, the effectiveness is a more complicated function of M, mL, h and k, and the relation between these variables are not as obvious as Case D.

15.  Fin efficiency
have fins or have no fins?
Once having fins, what fins are better? What’s the best geometry for the fin?
by assuming the entire fin surface were at the base temperature, Af: fin surface area Not the base area
Fin efficiency
: good for a practical comparison basis under constant
Not good for fin geometry study because the comparison is
based on “having fins” and “having no fins”
: good for fin design, have a common comparison basis Af
Accurate design should be based on the convection B.C. –Case A, table 3.4, but the relation is too cumbersome
An approximate, yet accurate by using the adiabatic tip result (case B, table 3.4) with a corrected fin length,

16. Fin efficiency Errors are negligible if (h/k) < 0.0625
If W >> t, P =2W and Ac = Wt
Multiplying the numerator and denominator by
and introducing a corrected fin profile area AP = Lct (different from Ac!), it follows that
AP: fin volume per unit width
fin weight per unit width, an important design criterion

17. Fin efficiency
Figures 3.18 – 3.19 present comparison between different fin geometries and some analytical solutions for fin efficiency are given in Table 3.5
A straight triangular fin is attractive, less volume, less costly than the parabolic profile

18. Overall surface efficiency:
Once we know
by solving differential equations or through the charts,
Overall surface efficiency:
where qt and At are the total heat rate and exposed area of finned and unfinned surfaces. For constant base Tb or
where
is the efficiency of a single fin and N is the number of fins
The efficiency is based on the same h for both finned and unfinned surfaces