• thermodynamics, combined forced convection and natural convection, or mixed convection, occurs when natural convection and forced convection mechanisms act...
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    diffusion relative to advection. Convective heat transfer Combined forced and natural convection Forced Convection Heat Transfer Bahrami, M Simon Fraser...
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    convection, which is typically referred to as Natural Convection in thermodynamic contexts in order to distinguish the two. Convection can be "forced"...
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    Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously through the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces...
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    environment. In an oven without a fan, natural convection circulates hot air unevenly, so that it will be cooler at the bottom and hotter at the top than in the...
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    concept of convection is also applied to "the process by which heat is communicated through water". Combined forced and natural convection Heat capacity...
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  • Heat transfer coefficient (category Convection)
    the convective heat transfer coefficient in various cases including natural convection, forced convection for internal flow and forced convection for...
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  • Nusselt number (category Convection)
    a fluid. Total heat transfer combines conduction and convection. Convection includes both advection (fluid motion) and diffusion (conduction). The conductive...
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  • the study of situations involving natural convection and is analogous to the Reynolds number (Re). Free convection is caused by a change in density of...
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    feed, a pump, or natural convection. As it gives out heat, the hot water cools and sinks to the bottom of the radiator and is forced out of a pipe at...
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    (appliances and building insulation), airtightness is the key in reducing heat transfer due to air leakage (forced or natural convection). Once airtightness...
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    companies such as Novel Concepts, Inc. and at www.heatsinkcalculator.com can accurately estimate forced and natural convection heat sink performance. For more...
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    Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Cogeneration...
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    convection formed around the low-level circulation. By October 23, Trami intensified into a severe tropical storm as it moved west-northwestward and made...
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    and upward heat transport via natural convection (which carries hot air and latent heat upward). Above the tropopause, convection does not occur and all...
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  • correlations are Dittus-Boelter correlation (turbulent forced convection), Churchill & Chu (natural convection). Compared with single-phase heat transfer, heat...
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    A forced-air central heating system is one which uses air as its heat transfer medium. These systems rely on ductwork, vents, and plenums as means of...
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    Adrian Bejan (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    fields: for the pressure difference group, in heat transfer by forced convection, and for the dimensionless ratio of fluid friction irreversibility divided...
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  • Solar chimney (category Convection)
    as a thermal chimney – is a way of improving the natural ventilation of buildings by using convection of air heated by passive solar energy. A simple description...
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  • by natural means such as radiation, conduction, and natural convection. As a consequence, the wall works by absorbing sunlight on its outer face and then...
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    through the process of convection (hence the term convective precipitation). This process creates a low-pressure zone within and beneath the forming thunderstorm...
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    circulating, and prevents stagnation of the interior air. Methods for ventilating a building are divided into mechanical/forced and natural types. The three...
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    coolant circulates by natural convection or fins. Some large transformers employ electric fans for forced-air cooling, pumps for forced-liquid cooling, or...
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    machine. Cooling methods modelled include natural convection (Totally enclosed non ventilated - TENV), forced convection (Totally enclosed fan cooled - TEFC)...
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    Boiler (category Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
    boilers provided this stream of air, or draught, through the natural action of convection in a chimney connected to the exhaust of the combustion chamber...
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    Cloud physics (category Cloud and fog physics)
    producing cumuliform and cumulonimbiform clouds in heavier and more active concentrations because of the combined frontal and convective lifting agents. As...
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    Cloud (category Clouds, fog and precipitation)
    generally non-convective except castellanus and floccus subtypes which show limited convection. They often form along a high altitude jetstream and at the very...
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    water than all of Earth's oceans combined. Ganymede's magnetic field is probably created by convection within its core, and influenced by tidal forces from...
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    heat from the building (natural cooling). Natural cooling utilizes on-site energy, available from the natural environment, combined with the architectural...
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    including boiling, steaming, and poaching. The lowest heat flux seen in boiling is only sufficient to cause [natural convection], where the warmer fluid rises...
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