Citrus fruits are very susceptible to cold weather, and extended exposure to subfreezing temperatures can destroy them. Consider an 8-cm-diameter orange that is initially at 15°C. A cold front moves in one night, and the ambient temperature suddenly drops to –6°C, with a heat transfer coefficient of 15 W/m2·K. Using the properties of water for the orange and assuming the ambient conditions to remain constant for 20400 seconds before the cold front moves out, determine the surface temperature of orange that night. Solve this problem using analytical one-term approximation method. The properties of the orange are approximated by those of water at the average temperature of about 5°C, k = 0.571 W/m·°C and α = 0.136 × 10–6 m2/s. The surface temperature of orange that night is
Citrus fruits are very susceptible to cold weather, and extended exposure to subfreezing temperatures can destroy them. Consider an 8-cm-diameter orange that is initially at 15°C. A cold front moves in one night, and the ambient temperature suddenly drops to –6°C, with a heat transfer coefficient of 15 W/m2·K. Using the properties of water for the orange and assuming the ambient conditions to remain constant for 20400 seconds before the cold front moves out, determine the surface temperature of orange that night. Solve this problem using analytical one-term approximation method. The properties of the orange are approximated by those of water at the average temperature of about 5°C, k = 0.571 W/m·°C and α = 0.136 × 10–6 m2/s.
The surface temperature of orange that night is
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