ANALYTICAL SOLUTION TO CONVECTION-RADIATION OF A CONTINUOUSLY MOVING FIN WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

Abstract

In this article, the simultaneous convection-radiation heat transfer of a moving fin of variable thermal conductivity is studied. The differential transformation method (DTM) is applied for an analytic solution for heat transfer in fin with two different profiles. Fin profiles are rectangular and exponential. The accuracy of analytic solution is validated by comparing it with the numerical solution that is obtained by fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The analytical and numerical results are shown for different values of the embedding parameters. DTM results show that series converge rapidly with high accuracy. The results indicate that the fin tip temperature increases when ambient temperature increases. Conversely, the fin tip temperature decreases with an increase in the Peclet number, convection-conduction and radiation-conduction parameters. It is shown that the fin tip temperature of the exponential profile is higher than the rectangular one. The results indicate that the numerical data and analytical method are in a good agreement with each other.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2011-04-25
  • Revision Date2012-01-05
  • Acceptance Date2012-01-05

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI110425005M

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