Tutorial-II

1. Find the heat transfer per unit area through the composite wall in Figure 1. Assume one-dimensional heat
flow.

2. A 5-mm-diameter spherical ball at 50◦ C is covered by a 1-mm-thick plastic insulation (k=0.13 W/m-◦ C).
The ball is exposed to a medium at 15◦ C, with a combined convection and radiation heat transfer coefficient
of 20 W/m2 -◦ C. Determine if the plastic insulation on the ball will help or hurt heat transfer from the ball.

3. A certain material 2.5 cm thick, with a cross-sectional area of 0.1 m2 , has one side maintained at 35 ◦ C and
the other at 95 ◦ C. The temperature at the center plane of the material is 62 ◦ C , and the heat flow through
the material is 1 kW. Obtain an expression for the thermal conductivity of the material as a function of
temperature (Assume linear variation for K).

4. A plane wall 6.0 cm thick generates heat internally at the rate of 0.3 MW/m3 . One side of the wall is
insulated, and the other side is exposed to an environment at 93◦ C. The convection heat-transfer coefficient
between the wall and the environment is 570 W/m2 -◦ C . The thermal conductivity of the wall is 21 W/m-◦ C.
Calculate the maximum temperature in the wall.

5. Consider a house whose walls are 12m high and 40m long. Two of the walls of the house have no windows,
while each of the other two walls has four windows made of 2.083 cm thick glass (k = 0.45 W/m-K),
3m ×5m in size. The walls are certified to have an R-value of 19 (i.e., an L/k value of 19 K-m2 /W ).
Disregarding any direct radiation gain or loss through the windows and taking the heat transfer coefficients
at the inner and outer surfaces of the house to be 2 and 4 W/m2 -K, respectively, determine the ratio of the
heat transfer through the walls with and without windows.

8456
 24
94 814 

34 9
898
 
8 
0123456

017756
  3   4

(a)

Figure 1: Problem 1

1
Tutorial-II solution
1. Find the heat transfer per unit area through the composite wall in Figure 1. Assume one-dimensional heat
flow.
Solution:

8456
 24
94 814 

34 9
898
 
8 
0123456

017756
  3   4

(a) problem 1 (b) problem 1 figure

Figure 2: solution of problem 1

2. A 5-mm-diameter spherical ball at 50◦ C is covered by a 1-mm-thick plastic insulation (k=0.13 W/m-◦ C).
The ball is exposed to a medium at 15◦ C, with a combined convection and radiation heat transfer coefficient
of 20 W/m2 -◦ C. Determine if the plastic insulation on the ball will help or hurt heat transfer from the ball.
Solution:

(a) problem 2

Figure 3: solution of problem 2

3. A certain material 2.5 cm thick, with a cross-sectional area of 0.1 m2 , has one side maintained at 35 ◦ C and
the other at 95 ◦ C. The temperature at the center plane of the material is 62 ◦ C , and the heat flow through
the material is 1 kW. Obtain an expression for the thermal conductivity of the material as a function of
temperature (Assume linear variation for K).

4. A plane wall 6.0 cm thick generates heat internally at the rate of 0.3 MW/m3 . One side of the wall is
insulated, and the other side is exposed to an environment at 93◦ C. The convection heat-transfer coefficient

2
 between the wall and the environment is 570 W/m2 -◦ C . The thermal conductivity of the wall is 21 W/m-◦ C.
Calculate the maximum temperature in the wall.

(a) problem 3 (b) problem 4

Figure 4: solution of problem 3 and 4

5. Consider a house whose walls are 12m high and 40m long. Two of the walls of the house have no windows,
while each of the other two walls has four windows made of 2.083 cm thick glass (k = 0.45 W/m-K),
3m ×5m in size. The walls are certified to have an R-value of 19 (i.e., an L/k value of 19 K-m2 /W ).
Disregarding any direct radiation gain or loss through the windows and taking the heat transfer coefficients
at the inner and outer surfaces of the house to be 2 and 4 W/m2 -K, respectively, determine the ratio of the
heat transfer through the walls with and without windows.

(a) problem 5

Figure 5: solution of problem 5