Experiment-: To study of conduction heat transfer in metal rod.

Q1.What is steady heat transfer.

Ans. It implies that temperature of each point of the system remains constant in the
course of time.
Q2.What is the driving force for heat transfer?
Ans. The temp. Difference between two points in the same medium.
Q3.What is homogenous material?
Ans. the properties like density, thermal conductivity of this type of material are
same everywhere in the system.
Q4. What is Newton law of cooling?
Ans. Q=hA (ts-tf)
Q5.What does overall heat transfer coefficient represent?
Ans. It represents the intensity of heat transfer from one fluid to another through a
wall separating them.
Q6.What is the shape factor of plane wall.
Ans. A/.
Q7.What NTU stands for.
Ans. Number of transfer units..
Q8. What is unsteady heat transfer?
A0ns. Under unsteady condition, temperature of the system changes continuously
with time
Q9.What is the value of specific heat of water?
Ans. 4.186 kj/kg-deg
Q10. What is the value of specific heat of air at constant pressure?
Ans. 1.005kj/kg-deg
Q11.What is the unit of Overall heat transfer coefficient?
Ans. W/m2-deg.

Q12.What is the value of specific heat of air at constant volume

Ans.0.71kj/kg-deg
Q13.What is internal energy?
Ans. The sum total of molecular kinetic and potential energy is referred to as
internal energy.
Q14.What do you understand by diffusion of energy?
Ans. Since conduction is essentially due to random molecular motion, the concept is
termed as diffusion of energy.
Q15 What LMTD stands for?
Ans. Logarithmic mean temperature difference

Experiment-:To find heat transfer coefficient in forced convection in

a tube
Q1.What is convection current?
Ans. The circulation pattern, upward movement of the warm air and the downward
movement of the cold air, is called the convection current.
Q2.Explain the phenomenon of forced convection?
Ans. in forced convection, the flow of fluid is caused by pump ,fan and other
mechanical devices.
Q3. On what factors does value of Emissivity depend?
Ans. Its value depends upon surface characteristic and temperature.
Q4.Identify the mode of heat transfer in the given operation Cooling of IC engine?
Ans. Forced convection
Q5.What is the average value of thermal conductivity of silver at normal pressure
and temperature?
Ans. 410W/m deg.
Q6.Material with large thermal conductivity is known as?
Ans. Thermal conductor.
Q7.How the Nusselt number represent.

Ans. Nu=hl/k
Q8.What is Kirchhoffs law?
Ans.The emissivity and absorptivity of a real surface are equal for radiation with
identical temperature and pressure.
Q9.What is gray body?
Ans.When the emissivity of non-black surface is constant at all temp. and entire
range of wavelength, the surface is called a gray body.
Q10. What is the average value of thermal conductivity of water at normal pressure
and temperature?
Ans. 0.55-0.7 W/m-deg
Q11.Material with low thermal conductivity is known as?
Ans. Insulator
Q12. What is the value of Plancks constant
Ans. 6.625X10-34 J-s
Q13. What is emissive power?
Ans. The total amount of heat energy emitted by a surface in all direction over a
wider range of wavelength per unit area, per unit time.
Q 14 What is absorptivity?
Ans.It is defined as a fraction of radiant energy incident on the surface from all
directions, over entire wavelength spectrum that is absorbed by the surface.
Q 15 Mathematically what is the relation between absorptivity, reflectivity and
transmissivity?
Ans. ++=1