Nusselt number is the ratio of the temperature gradient at the wall to_________________?

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1. The heat flux (from outside to inside) across an insulating wall with thermal conductivity, K = 0.04 W/m.°K and thickness 0.16m is 10 W/m2. The temperature of the inside wall is – 5°C. The outside wall temperature is___________________?

   A. 25°C
   B. 30°C
   C. 35°C
   D. 40°C

2. Walls of a cubical oven are of thickness l, and they are made of material of thermal conductivity k. The temperature inside the oven is 100°C and the inside heat transfer coefficient is „3k/l’. If the wall temperature on the outside is held at 25°C, what is the inside wall temperature in degree centigrade ?

   A. 35.5
   B. 43.75
   C. 81.25
   D. 48.25

3. If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows _____________ law?

   A. Parabolic
   B. Hyperbolic
   C. Linear
   D. Logarithmic

4. If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows ____________ law?

   A. Hyperbolic
   B. Parabolic
   C. Linear
   D. Logarithmic

5. The inner wall of a furnace is at a temperature of 700°C. The composite wall is made of two substances, 10 and 20 cm thick with thermal conductivities of 0.05 and 0.1 W.m-1.°C- 1 respectively. The ambient air is at 30°C and the heat transfer co-efficient between the outer surface of wall and air is 20 W.m-2.°C-1. The rate of heat loss from the outer surface in W.m-2is__________________?

   A. 165.4
   B. 167.5
   C. 172.5
   D. 175

6. A wall has two layers of materials A and B; each made of a different material. Both the layers have the same thickness. The thermal conductivity of material A is twice that of B. Under the equilibrium, the temperature difference across the wall is 36°C. The temperature difference across the layer A is ______________ °C?

   A. 6
   B. 12
   C. 18
   D. 24

7. A composite flat wall of a furnace is made of two materials ‘A’ and ‘B’. The thermal conductivity of ‘A’ is twice of that of material ‘B’, while the thickness of layer of ‘A’ is half that of B. If the temperature at the two sides of the wall are 400 and 1200°K, then the temperature drop (in °K) across the layer of material ‘A’ is________________?

   A. 125
   B. 133
   C. 150
   D. 160

8. The Nusselt number for fully developed (both thermally and hydrodynamically) laminar flow through a circular pipe, where the wall heat flux is constant, is__________________?

   A. 2.36
   B. 4.36
   C. 120.36
   D. Dependent on NRe only

9. The non-dimensional temperature gradient in a liquid at the wall of a pipe is the ____________________?

   A. Heat flux
   B. Nusselt number
   C. Prandtl number
   D. Schmidt number

10. Nusselt number is the ratio of the ____________________?

    A. Temperature gradient of the wall to that across the entire pipe
    B. Temperature difference to the temperature gradient at the wall
    C. Heat flux at the wall to that across the entire pipe
    D. None of these