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This document discusses heat transfer through a thin-walled tube, including deriving an expression for the temperature distribution of water flowing through the tube, calculating the outlet temperature for a heated section of tube, plotting temperature distributions, and considering a tube with thickness surrounded by another fluid.

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This document discusses heat transfer through a thin-walled tube, including deriving an expression for the temperature distribution of water flowing through the tube, calculating the outlet temperature for a heated section of tube, plotting temperature distributions, and considering a tube with thickness surrounded by another fluid.

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Water enters a 50 mm diameter thin-walled tube at 27 °C with a flow rate of 450 kg/h. The heat transfer
from the tube wall to the fluid is given as q(W/m) = ax, where the coefficient a is 20 W/m2 and x (m) is
the axial distance from the tube entrance.

(a) Beginning with a properly defined differential control volume in the tube, derive an expression for
the temperature distribution Tm(x) of the water.

(b) What is the outlet temperature of the water for a heated section 30 m long?

(c) Plot the mean fluid temperature, Tm(x), and the tube wall temperature, Ts(x), as a function of
distance along the tube. Assume a convective coefficient h = 1000 W/m²K.

(d) What value of a uniform wall heat flux, qs (instead of qs = ax), would provide the same fluid outlet
temperature as that determined in part (b)? For this type of heating, plot the temperature distributions
requested in part (c).

(e) Let us now assume that the tube has a nonnegligible thickness of 1 cm. The thermal conductivity of
the 316 stainless steel tube is 16.3 W/mK. The tube is now surrounded by a fluid at T = 80 °C with a ho =
5000 W/m²K. The internal convective coefficient can be assumed as h₁ = 1000 W/m²K. Plot the
temperature of water as a function of the tube axis (length). Hint: consider the thermal resistance for
cylindrical coordinates.

Solution:

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