Showing posts with label Rate of Heat Transfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rate of Heat Transfer. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Rate of Heat Transfer

                    Heat transfer during a polytropic process
                                        Q1-2 = (segma) - n / (segma) - 1 * W1-2
 where W1-2 is the work done during polytropic process.
                     If dQ is the small quantity of heat transfer during small change of pressure and volume, then
                                                 dQ = (segma) - n / (segma) - 1 * pdv
Rate of heat transfer per unit volume,
                                                dQ / dv = (segma) - n / (segma) - 1 * p

and rate of heat transfer per second,
                                     dQ / dt = dQ / dv * dv / dt = (segma) - n / (segma) -1 * p * dv / dt
where dv / dt is the swept volume of the piston per second.