Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer Convective heat transfer Concept
Heat transfer coefficient
Summary
The heat transfer coefficient is the heat flux from a surface into a fluid, divided by the temperature difference. This difference is the surface temperature minus the fluid temperature. It packs the whole effect of convection near the surface into one number. Unlike conductivity, it depends on the flow, the geometry and the fluid, not only on a material. It enters Newton's law of cooling and the Biot and Nusselt numbers.
Where this leads
14 pages build on this one.
- Nusselt number
- Dittus–Boelter equation
- Biot number
- Nusselt film condensation theory
- Stanton number
- Robin boundary condition for convective cooling
- Chilton–Colburn J-factor analogy
- Boiling heat transfer
- Lumped-element thermal model
- Fin heat transfer
- NTU method
- Reynolds analogy
- Heat exchanger theory
- Log mean temperature difference
Further reading
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- Nusselt number
- Dittus–Boelter equation
- Biot number
- Nusselt film condensation theory
- Stanton number
- Robin boundary condition for convective cooling
- Boiling heat transfer
- Lumped-element thermal model
- Fin heat transfer
- NTU method
- Reynolds analogy
- Heat exchanger theory
- Log mean temperature difference