Heat Transfer

Assignment 1
Name: Mayank Nandwani
Reg No: 15BCM0012
Slot: D1
Faculty: Rambabu K
Course Code: CHE1006
Course Venue: SMV105
 Question 9
Consider the engine block of a car made of cast iron (k = 52 W/m C and =
1.7 *105 m2/s). The engine can be considered to be a rectangular block
whose sides are 80 cm, 40 cm, and 40 cm. The engine is at a temperature of
150 C when it is turned off. The engine is then exposed to atmospheric air
at 17 C with a heat transfer coefficient of 6 W/m2 C. Determine -
(a) the center temperature of the top surface whose sides are 80 cm and 40
cm and
(b) the corner temperature after 45 min of cooling.

Answer
Given:
Dimensions of engine =80 cm40 cm40 cm
Engine Temperature=140
Atmospheric Temperature=17

The engine block of a car is allowed to cool in atmospheric air.

Heat conduction in the block is three-dimensional, and thus the
temperature varies in all three directions. The thermal properties
of the block are constant.

The thermal properties of cast iron are:

k =52W /m

=1.7105 m2 / s

This rectangular block can physically be formed by an intersection

of two infinite plane walls of thickness 2L=40cm (call planes A
and B) and an infinite plane wall of thickness 2L=80cm (Call plane
C). We measure x from the center of the block.

a) The Biot number is calculated for each of the plane wall to

be:
2o
hL 6 W /m C0.2 m
Bia=Bib= = =0.0231
k 52 W /m
 W
2
6
0.4 m
hL m
Bic = = =0.0462
k W
52
m

The constants 1 and A1 corresponding to these Biot numbers are,

1(A,B) = 0.150 and A1(A,B)=1.0038
2(C) = 0.212 and A1(C) = 1.0076

The Fourier numbers are

t 1.70105 m 2 /s45 min60 s/min

( A , B )= =
L2 ( 0.2 m )2

1.1475>0.2

t 1.70105 m 2 /s45 min60 s/min

( C )= 2
=
L ( 0.4 m )2

0.2869>0.2

The center of the top surface of the block(whose sides are 80cm
and 40cm) is at the center of the plane wall with 2L = 80cm, at
the center of the plane wall with 2L=40cm, and at the surface of
the plane wall with 2L = 40cm . The dimensionless temperatures
are:

Tinf 2

(o) ( A ) = =A 1e 1 x
TiTinf

1.0038e(0.150 ) 1.1475
 0.9782

T (x , t)Tinf
( L, t ) (B)=
TiTinf

1.0038e(0.150 ) 1.1475cos ( 0.0150)

0.9672

Tinf
( o ) (C )=
TiTinf

1.0076e( 0.212) 0.2869

0.9947

Then the center temperature of the top surface of the cylinder becomes

[ T ( L , 0,0,t )Tinf
TiTinf ]
( short cylinder )= ( o )( A ) ( L, t )( B ) ( o ) (C)

0.97820.96720.9947

0.9411

[ T ( L , 0,0,t )17
15017 ]
=0.9411

T ( L , 0,0,t )=142.2