TY - JOUR
AU1 - Nguyen, H.
AU2 - Aziz, A.
AB - A finite difference method is used to predict the performance of convecting-radiating fins of rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular, and concave parabolic shapes. The analysis assumes one-dimensional, steady conduction in the fin and neglects radiative exchange between adjacent fins and between the fin and its primary surface. For the range of thermal and geometrical parameters investigated, the variation of heat transfer rate and the fin efficiency with other profile shapes was found to be within 11 percent of the rectangular shape. The effect of profile shape is most pronounced when the Biot number,Bi, and radiation number,N
r, are small compared to unity. Because of several limiting assumptions, the results would be used only for preliminary analysis and design particularly when a fin assembly is involved rather than an individual fin.
TI - Heat transfer from convecting-radiating fins of different profile shapes
JF - Heat and Mass Transfer
DO - 10.1007/BF01590120
DA - 2005-04-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/heat-transfer-from-convecting-radiating-fins-of-different-profile-G22dqyIguA
SP - 67
EP - 72
VL - 27
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -