ChE312A

Assignment-5

2D Heat conduction through Chimney

Hot combustion gases of a furnace are flowing through a square chimney
made of concrete (k=1.4 W/mC). The flow section of the chimney is 20 cm x
20 cm, and the thickness of the wall is 20 cm. The average temperature of
the hot gases in the chimney is 300C, and the average convection heat
transfer coefficient inside the chimney is 70 W/m2C. The chimney is losing
heat from its outer surface to the ambient air at 30C by convection with a
heat transfer coefficient of 21 W/m2C. Ignore the radiation effects to sky.
Using the finite difference method and choosing grid size in x & y direction to
be of same length, write a program (C/C++/MATLAB) to obtain the
temperatures at the nodal points of a cross section and the rate of heat loss
for a 1-m-long section of the chimney.
a. Keep your code general enough so that one may input the grid size as per
his/her own choice. Output the average wall temperatures for inner and outer
wall as well as the rate of heat transfer to the inner wall and that from the
outer wall.
b. Plot the rate of heat transfer and the wall temperatures as a function of the
grid size. Choose grids of sizes 10 cm, 5 cm, 3.33 cm, 2.5 cm, 2 cm, 1cm and
0.5 cm. Why does the heat transfer rate depends upon the gird size?
c. The temperature at the outer wall T_outer_wall will vary with the distance
from the center line of the outer wall. Plot the variation of the temperature
T_outer_wall (x) in the range x=-30cm to x=+30cm where x=0 is the center
line of the outer wall.