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IIT Bombay
MM 659 -Transport Phenomenon
Assignment 5
1. A cylindrical piece of steel, 50 mm in diameter and initially at 1145 K. is
quenched in water at 295 K (H = 59 m-1), Calculate the temperature at the surface
of the piece after 60 s, 120 s, and 300 s, Compare your results with the temperature
at the same location if the piece had been quenched in oil (H = 20 m-1). Data: ά =
6.4 X 10-6 m2 s-1. (H=h/k).
2. A steel blank, 300 mm in diameter and 600 mm long, is heated in a preheating
furnace maintained at 1410 K as the first step in a forging operation.
a) Calculate the temperature in the center of the blank after the blank has been
heated for 5400 s from an initial temperature of 295 K.
b) Calculate the time required to heat a smaller blank, 150 mm in diameter and 300
mm long, to the same center temperature as the larger blank in part a).
Data: h = 110 W m-2 K'-1; k = 35 W m-1 K-1; p = 7690 kg m-3; CP = 500 J kg- 1 K'-1
3. Lecture-8, slide 11 provides equation for temperature profile for surface
convection boundary condition. The temperature profiles for constant surface
temperature and constant heat flux boundary conditions for AISI SS304 is shown
on slide 12. An excel spreadsheet showing this calculation is attached with the
assignment. You can use similar calculation to plot temperature vs x at different
times for three values of h: 10, 100 and 1000 W/m2K.
4. One estimate of the original temperature of Earth is 4144 K. Using this value
and the following properties for Earth’s crust, Lord Kelvin obtained an estimate of
9.8x107 years for the Earth’s age:
T2 = 255.372 K
α = 0.00423637862 m2/h
Comment on Lord Kelvin’s result by considering the exact expression for
unsteady-state conduction in one dimension