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ISBN: 9780470501979

Author: Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt, Theodore L. Bergman, Adrienne S. Lavine

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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When energy travels from one object to another it is said to have undergone heat transfer. Heat transfer is nothing but the transfer of thermal energy or internal energy from one thing to another, like e.g., when a vessel with water, kept on top of a bur…

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Chapter 3, Problem 3.15P

Consider a composite wall that includes an 8-mm-thick hardwood siding, 40-rnm by 130-mm hardwood studs on 0.65-m centers with glass fiber insulation (paper faced, 28 kg/m 3 ) , and a 12-mm layer of gypsum (vermiculite) wall board.

Chapter 3, Problem 3.15P, Consider a composite wall that includes an 8-mm-thick hardwood siding, 40-rnm by 130-mm hardwood
What is the thermal resistance associated with a wall that is 2.5 m high by 6.5 m wide (having 10 studs. each 2.5 m high)? Assume surfaces normal to the x-direction are isothermal.

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Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

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