enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Thermal expansion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion

    A number of materials contract on heating within certain temperature ranges; this is usually called negative thermal expansion, rather than "thermal contraction".For example, the coefficient of thermal expansion of water drops to zero as it is cooled to 3.983 °C (39.169 °F) and then becomes negative below this temperature; this means that water has a maximum density at this temperature, and ...

  3. Thermal equation of state of solids - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_equation_of_state...

    To distinguish these two thermal expansion equations of state, the latter one is called pressure-dependent thermal expansion equation of state. To deveop the pressure-dependent thermal expansion equation of state, in an compression process at room temperature from (V 0, T 0, P 0) to (V 1, T 0,P 1), a general form of volume is expressed as

  4. Volume correction factor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_Correction_Factor

    In thermodynamics, the Volume Correction Factor (VCF), also known as Correction for the effect of Temperature on Liquid (CTL), is a standardized computed factor used to correct for the thermal expansion of fluids, primarily, liquid hydrocarbons at various temperatures and densities. [1]

  5. Heat capacity ratio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity_ratio

    We assume the expansion occurs without exchange of heat (adiabatic expansion). Doing this work , air inside the cylinder will cool to below the target temperature. To return to the target temperature (still with a free piston), the air must be heated, but is no longer under constant volume, since the piston is free to move as the gas is reheated.

  6. Thermal stress - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_stress

    Quick heating or cooling causes thermal expansion or contraction respectively, this localized movement of material causes thermal stresses. Imagine heating a cylinder, first the surface rises in temperature and the center remains the same initial temperature. After some time the center of the cylinder will reach the same temperature as the surface.

  7. Grashof number - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grashof_number

    β is the coefficient of volume expansion (equal to approximately 1/T for ideal gases) T s is the surface temperature; T ∞ is the bulk temperature; L is the vertical length; D is the diameter; ν is the kinematic viscosity. The L and D subscripts indicate the length scale basis for the Grashof number.

  8. Table of thermodynamic equations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_thermodynamic...

    Thermal conduction rate, thermal current, thermal/heat flux, thermal power transfer P = / W ML 2 T −3: Thermal intensity I = / W⋅m −2: MT −3: Thermal/heat flux density (vector analogue of thermal intensity above) q

  9. Rayleigh number - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_number

    β is the thermal expansion coefficient (equals to 1/T, for ideal gases, where T is absolute temperature). is the kinematic viscosity; α is the thermal diffusivity; T s is the surface temperature; T ∞ is the quiescent temperature (fluid temperature far from the surface of the object) Gr x is the Grashof number for characteristic length x