A small scale bench top accessory designed to measure the temperature profile and heat transfer along a horizontal Extended Surface. The resulting heat transfer gives a temperature profile that may be investigated and predicted by conventional analysis. A small diameter uniform rod is heated at one end and heat flowing along the rod by conduction is lost to the surroundings by a combination of natural convection and radiation.
Experimental Capabilities:
Determining the constant of proportionality/thermal conductivity of the rod material.
Calculating the heat transfer from an extended surface resulting from the combined modes of free convection and radiation heat transfer and comparing the result with a theoretical analysis.
Measuring the temperature distribution along an extended surface and comparing the result with a theoretical analysis.
