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  2. Newton's law of cooling - Wikipedia

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    Newton's law is most closely obeyed in purely conduction-type cooling. However, the heat transfer coefficient is a function of the temperature difference in natural convective (buoyancy driven) heat transfer. In that case, Newton's law only approximates the result when the temperature difference is relatively small.

  3. Biot number - Wikipedia

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    The equation to describe this change in (relatively uniform) temperature inside the object, is a simple exponential one described by Newton's law of cooling. In contrast, the metal sphere may be large, so that the characteristic length is large and the Biot number is greater than one.

  4. Heat transfer coefficient - Wikipedia

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    Values of thermal conductivities for various materials are listed in the list of thermal conductivities. As mentioned earlier in the article the convection heat transfer coefficient for each stream depends on the type of fluid, flow properties and temperature properties. Some typical heat transfer coefficients include: Air - h = 10 to 100 W/(m 2 K)

  5. Cooling curve - Wikipedia

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    A cooling curve of naphthalene from liquid to solid. A cooling curve is a line graph that represents the change of phase of matter, typically from a gas to a solid or a liquid to a solid. The independent variable (X-axis) is time and the dependent variable (Y-axis) is temperature. [1] Below is an example of a cooling curve used in castings.

  6. Newton's method in optimization - Wikipedia

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    The geometric interpretation of Newton's method is that at each iteration, it amounts to the fitting of a parabola to the graph of () at the trial value , having the same slope and curvature as the graph at that point, and then proceeding to the maximum or minimum of that parabola (in higher dimensions, this may also be a saddle point), see below.

  7. Nusselt number - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 336 A value between one and 10 is characteristic of slug flow or laminar flow. [2] A larger Nusselt number corresponds to more active convection, with turbulent flow typically in the 100–1000 range. [2] A similar non-dimensional property is the Biot number, which concerns thermal conductivity for a solid body rather than a fluid.

  8. Thermal conduction - Wikipedia

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    This is due to their far higher conductance. During transient conduction, therefore, the temperature across their conductive regions changes uniformly in space, and as a simple exponential in time. An example of such systems is those that follow Newton's law of cooling during transient cooling (or the reverse during heating). The equivalent ...

  9. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton Newton's law of cooling. T 0 = original temperature, T R = ambient temperature, t = time In 1701, Isaac Newton anonymously published an article in Philosophical Transactions noting (in modern terms) that the rate of temperature change of a body is proportional to the difference in temperatures ( graduum caloris , "degrees of heat ...