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  2. Newton's law of cooling - Wikipedia

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    The law holds well for forced air and pumped liquid cooling, where the fluid velocity does not rise with increasing temperature difference. 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.

  3. Thermal neutral zone - Wikipedia

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    It can show postural changes where it changes its body shape or moves and exposes different areas to the sun/shade, and through radiation, convection and conduction, heat exchange occurs. Vasomotor responses allow control of the flow of blood between the periphery and the core to control heat loss from the surface of the body.

  4. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    Convective heat transfer, or simply, convection, is the transfer of heat from one place to another by the movement of fluids, a process that is essentially the transfer of heat via mass transfer. The bulk motion of fluid enhances heat transfer in many physical situations, such as between a solid surface and the fluid. [10]

  5. Critical heat flux - Wikipedia

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    The convective heat transfer between a uniformly heated wall and the working fluid is described by Newton's law of cooling: = where represents the heat flux, represents the proportionally constant called the heat transfer coefficient, represents the wall temperature and represents the fluid temperature.

  6. Thermal balance of the underwater diver - Wikipedia

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    When heat loss exceeds heat generation, body temperature will fall. [2] Exertion increases heat production by metabolic processes, but when breathing gas is cold and dense, heat loss due to the increased volume of gas breathed to support these metabolic processes can result in a net loss of heat, even if the heat loss through the skin is minimised.

  7. Adaptation to extrauterine life - Wikipedia

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    Physiology: Newborns lack the ability of thermogenesis due to underdeveloped shivering mechanism. Body heat is lost through conduction, convection, and radiant heat. [1] Thermoregulation is achieved through several methods: the metabolism of brown fat and Kangaroo care, also known as skin to skin.

  8. Fantasy Football: Surging Ray Davis among Week 10 sleeper picks

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    At least the game has a 1 p.m. ET start time, so we'll be able to make decisions before most of the games start. Even as the Niners heal up, they should have a role for Pearsall.

  9. Heat transfer coefficient - Wikipedia

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    It is used in calculating the heat transfer, typically by convection or phase transition between a fluid and a solid. The heat transfer coefficient has SI units in watts per square meter per kelvin (W/m 2 K). The overall heat transfer rate for combined modes is usually expressed in terms of an overall conductance or heat transfer coefficient, U ...