Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science

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

5. A wire with a diameter of 0.03 mm and 0.3 m in length is heated by an electrical

current and placed in helium at 280 K. Calculate the electric power, for the same
wire temperature, if there is a cross flow of helium with a free stream velocity of
20 m /s
6. Glycerin flows parallel to a flat plate measuring 60 cm by 60 cm with a velocity
of 3 m/s. Determine values for the mean convective heat-transfer coefficient and
the associated drag force imposed on the plate for glycerin temperatures of 176 0C,
100C, and 820C. What heat flux will result, in each case, if the plate temperature is
100C above that of the glycerin?
7. A blacktop road surface 18.3m wide receives solar radiation at the rate of 284
W/m2 at noon and 95 W/m2 are lost by reradiation to the atmosphere. A wind, at
300 K, flows across the road. Determine the wind velocity that will cause the road
surface to be at 308 K if all energy not reradiated to the sky is removed by
convection.

8. The performance of gas turbine engines may be improved by increasing the

tolerance of the turbine blades to hot gases emerging from the combustor. One
approach to achieving high operating temperatures involves application of a
thermal barrier coating (TBC) to the exterior surface of a blade, while passing
cooling air through the blade. Typically, the blade is made from a high-temperature
superalloy, such as Inconel (k = 25 W/m K), while a ceramic, such as zirconia (k =
1.3 W/mK), is used as a TBC
Consider conditions for which hot gases at T,oo,o =1700 K and cooling air at Too,i
=400 K provide outer and inner surface convection coefficients of ho =1000 W/m2
K and hi= 500 W/m2 K, respectively. If a 0.5-mm-thick zirconia TBC is attached
to a 5-mm thick Inconel blade wall by means of a metallic bonding agent, which
provides an interfacial thermal resistance of R”t,c = 10-4 m2 K/W, can the Inconel
be maintained at a temperature that is below its maximum allowable value of 1250
K? Radiation effects may be neglected, and the turbine blade may be approximated
as a plane wall. Plot the temperature distribution with and without the TBC. Are
there any limits to the thickness of the TBC?