Hossain, A., & Saad, H. S., & Weiser, M. W. (2012, June), The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient Cooling  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22052

\bibitem{asee_peer_22052}
  Hossain, A., \& Saad, H. S., \& Weiser, M. W. (2012, June), \emph{The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient Cooling}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22052

Awlad Hossain, Hani Serhal Saad, and Martin W. Weiser.  "The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient Cooling".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22052 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22052}
  Awlad Hossain, Hani Serhal Saad, and Martin W. Weiser.
  "The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient Cooling".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22052 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

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AB  -            The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient CoolingAbstractWe have recently developed a new one-quarter heat transfer course as part of our MechanicalEngineering curriculum. This course includes a significant laboratory component to reinforce thematerial taught in the lecture. The students normally do not have too much trouble with steadystate heat transfer. However, transient heat transfer often causes confusion due to a combinationof more difficult mathematics and the use of material parameters that are less intuitive.Therefore, we use a combination of analytical, numerical, and experimental studies to improvethe students’ understanding of this topic. This paper documents development of this integratedheat transfer project and how it impacts the students’ understanding of transient heat transfer.The project varies the surface area and thermal diffusivity of samples to show that theseparameters are important in transient cooling. In the first project, the temperature distribution ofdifferent objects (or shapes) having the same volume but different surface area are analyzed andmeasured. The use of finite element analysis is necessary for some of the shapes since analyticalsolutions do not exist. Comparison of the analytical, numerical, and experimental resultsimproves the student’s confidence in the techniques and teaches them to test their models usingsimplified geometry before fully trusting any one technique. Transient heat transfer dependsupon the thermal diffusivity of the material that is often a difficult concept for students. Duringthe second project, the analysis and measurements are repeated for the same shapes but preparedfrom materials with different thermal diffusivities such as metals (aluminum and copper) andnon-metals (maple, lignum vitae, and basswood). This paper will explain the details of thisteaching methodology and discuss the educational outcomes obtained in our heat transfercurriculum.
AU  - Awlad Hossain
AU  - Hani Serhal Saad
AU  - Martin W. Weiser
CY  - San Antonio, Texas
DA  - 2012/06/10
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - The Effect of Surface Area and Thermal Diffusivity in Transient Cooling
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