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This document contains 55 oral questions related to heat transfer and thermal engineering concepts. Some of the key concepts covered include steady state conditions, heat conduction, thermal conductivity, temperature gradients, insulating materials, heat transfer modes like conduction, convection and radiation, thermal properties of materials, heat exchangers, and heat pipes. The questions probe understanding of fundamental definitions, laws, and applications across these various topics in thermal sciences.

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Oral Questions HT

This document contains 55 oral questions related to heat transfer and thermal engineering concepts. Some of the key concepts covered include steady state conditions, heat conduction, thermal conductivity, temperature gradients, insulating materials, heat transfer modes like conduction, convection and radiation, thermal properties of materials, heat exchangers, and heat pipes. The questions probe understanding of fundamental definitions, laws, and applications across these various topics in thermal sciences.

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ORAL QUESTIONS:

1. What is steady state condition?


2. What is heat conduction?
3. What is thermal conductivity?
4. What is mechanism of heat conduction?
5. What do you mean by temperature gradient?
6. What is the purpose of heating element?
7. State Fourier’s Law?
8. What is the effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of insulating materials?
9. What are uses of insulating powder?
10. Why is the thermal conductivity of insulating powder is less than that their parent solids?
11. What do you understand by isotropic & anisotropic materials?
12. What is insulating materials?
13. What is critical radius of insulations?

14. What are various applications where principal of composite wall is used?
15. What is thermal conductivity?
16. What is thermal resistance?
17. What do you mean by contact resistance?
18. What is electrical analogy of heat conduction?

19. What is heat conduction?


20. What is thermal conductivity?
21. What is fundamental law of heat conduction?
22. State Fourier Law.
23. What is potential for heat conduction?
24. What is effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of metals?
25. What is effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of non-metals?

26. What is the co-relation for natural convection?


27. What is the boundary layer?
28. What is the driving potential for natural convection and forced convection?
29. Give physical significance of dimensionless groups used in natural convection.
30. Comment on practically obtained value of h.
31. Compare the values of h in forced & natural convection.

32. What is the difference between forced convection & natural convection?
33. What are the dimensionless parameters which governs the force convection?
34. List the applications where force convection is used.
35. What is significance of dimensionless groups in forced convection?

36. Define a black surface.


37. Define Emissivity of a surface.
38. What is meant by Kirchhoff's law?
39. What is the range of values for the emissivity of a surface?
40. What is a gray surface?
41. What is a diffuse surface?
42. Define black body?

43. On what basic thermodynamic principle, the Stefan-Boltzman apparatus works?


44. State the laws of thermal radiation.
45. Justify the assumption that only radiation is the mode of heat transfer between the enclosure and
test disc.
46. Define black body, opaque body and white body.

47. What is critical heat flux?


48. What are pool boiling, nucleate boiling and film boiling?
49. What is heat convection?
50. Define Reynold’s number, Prandtl number, and Grashoff number
51. What are the classifications of heat exchangers?
52. Draw the temperature distribution of parallel flow & counter flow heat exchanger
53. What is LMTD? Why is more for counter flow heat exchanger?
54. What is AMTD? When to use LMTD and AMTD?
55. Define for heat exchanger, effectiveness and NTU.
56. List various examples of heat exchangers.
57. What is Heat Pipe
58. Which material is used for Heat pipe?
59. What is phenomenon used in heat Pipe

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