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Spring, 2018
HW Set # 3
PROBLEM 1
Problem 3.16. Water at 312 K temperature flows parallel to a flat surface at a velocity of 17 m/s. At a
distance of 4 cm from the leading edge of the plate, the surface temperature is measured to be 300 K.
PROBLEM 2
Problem 3.21 (Second Edition). Microscopic particles that are suspended in gas are driven from high
temperature to low temperature regions. This process is called thermophoresis. In the absence of other
particle diffusive transport mechanisms, the slip velocity (velocity between gas and particle) caused by
thermophoresis can be found from [Talbot et al., 1980; Friedlander, 2000]:
k ∇T
−2Csν + Ct ( 2 Knd ) C
k T
uTP = p
k
(1 + 6Cm Knd ) 1 + 2 + 4Ct Knd
kp
where d is the particle diameter, kp is the thermal conductivity of the particle, all properties without a
subscript represent the gas, and
= =
Cs 1.17; =
Ct 2.18; Cm 1.14
1/ 2
πM
λ mol =
ν (1.5.10) (Gas molecular mean free path)
2 R uT
Consider a flat and horizontal surface that is at a temperature of 398 K, and is cooled by a parallel air
flow. The air has a pressure of 0.1 bar and a temperature of 253 K, and flows with a far-field velocity of
20 m/s with respect to the surface. At a distance of 0.5 m downstream from the leading edge of the
surface, calculate the thermophoretic velocity in the vertical (y) direction of a metallic spherical particle
that is 0.5 μm in diameter and has the thermophysical properties of cupper, when it is 1 mm away from
the surface.
How does this velocity compare with the fluid velocity in the y direction?
PROBLEM 3
Problem 4.20. In an experiment liquid sodium flows upwards through a vertical, uniformly heated tube
with 4 mm inside diameter, and 35 cm in length. The pressure and temperature at inlet are 2 bar and
a) In a test, the average inlet velocity is 0.147 m/s. Estimate the heat transfer coefficient and
wall surface temperature at 10 cm from inlet, and at exit.
b) In choosing the thermally-developed Nusselt number correlation, is it reasonable to neglect
the effect of axial conduction in the fluid?