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FICK’S LAW OF DIFFUSION
Adolf Fick (1955) first described the molecular diffusion in an isothermal, isobaric binary system of…
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What Is Mass Transfer?
Mass transfer describes the transport of mass from one point to another and is one…
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Combined Convection and Radiation
Since these two modes of heat transfer are completely independent, there would be no mutual…
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Analogy between Heat Transfer and Electric Circuits
There exists an analogy between the diffusion of heat and electrical charge. Just as an…
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Radiation Heat Transfer (Heat transfer by thermal radiation)
All bodies radiate energy in the form of photons moving in a random direction, with…
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Heat Exchangers
from one fluid to another. The basic component of a heat exchanger can be viewed…
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Some Considerations in Modeling Complex Physical Processes
In Sections 5 and 6, a number of assumptions were made about the processes that…
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Transient Heat Transfer (Convective Cooling or Heating)
All the heat transfer problems we have examined have been steady state, but there are…
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Heat Transfer From a Fin
Fins are used in a large number of applications to increase the heat transfer from…
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Temperature Distributions in the Presence of Heat Sources
There are a number of situations in which there are sources of heat in the…