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Development of Convective Heat Transfer Experiment for Integration into the Undergraduate Curriculum

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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

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Virtual

Publication Date

April 17, 2021

Start Date

April 17, 2021

End Date

April 17, 2021

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--38294

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https://peer.asee.org/38294

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Shahrokh Etemad Fairfield University

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Dr. Etemad is the Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department and first Bannow-Larson Professor of Manufacturing at Fairfield University.
Dr. Etemad has over 30 years of teaching, research, industrial and senior administration experience in the energy fields. He is the original developer of Scroll compressor for Carrier Corp and RCL® Combustion System for Precision Combustion, Inc. with 29 patent awards. He has published over 40 technical articles in scientific journals. He is Fellow ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and current member of the Board of Associates of ASME, I.C. Engine Division. He is the recipient of ASME award for outstanding contributions to the literature of combustion. He has been a principle investigator on several grants funding in excess of $14M.

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Abstract

"Existing commercial educational experiments can be rather expensive. The objective of this paper is to present the development of a low cost educational convective heat transfer experiment for integration into the undergraduate curriculum. The paper will discuss the experimental set-up assembly and how to develop the convective heat transfer correlations using non-dimensional parameters. In addition, uncertainty error analysis will be demonstrated to teach the accuracy of the developed experimental convective heat transfer correlation as it is compared to the correlation from the textbook. The experimental assembly used an existing simple wind tunnel plus electrically heated cylindrical stainless-steel rod. The heating rod was easily adjustable to allow for swift removal for other experiments to be conducted and easy insertion into the wind tunnel. Thermocouples were used to measure the surface and fluid temperatures using a thermocouple readout. The ammeter and voltmeter were used to control the voltage and current of the heating rod. The overall assembly was safe, easy to follow, and cost effective. "

Etemad, S. (2021, April), Development of Convective Heat Transfer Experiment for Integration into the Undergraduate Curriculum Paper presented at 2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Virtual. 10.18260/1-2--38294

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