Unsteady State Heat Transfer

Unsteady State Heat Transfer

A small scale bench top accessory designed to allow experimental investigation of unsteady state heat transfer by conduction and convection.

Instrumented solid shapes of different materials are plunged into a controlled temperature water bath and the temperature change at the geometric centre of the shapes are recorded at regular intervals.

As the shapes are of regular geometric form standard empirical methods may be used to predict the temperature variation with time and determine factors about the material properties.

The accessory also allows investigation of the lumped thermal capacitance method of thermal analysis.