TY - JOUR
T1 - (Bejan's) early vs. late regimes method applied to entropy generation in one-dimensional conduction
AU - Bautista, O.
AU - Méndez, F.
AU - Martinez-Meyer, J. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by a research grant, number 43010-Y of CONACYT at Mexico. O. Bautista thanks the “Generación de Entropía en Problemas de Transferencia de Calor” chair supported by Centro Regional de Investi-gación en Materiales of the Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey.
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - In this paper, we treat the unsteady entropy generation rate due to an instantaneous internal heat generation in a solid slab. Following the basic ideas developed by Bejan [Heat Transfer, Wiley, 1993], we conduct a multiple-scale analysis identifying the "early" and "late" regimes to derive, in a very simple way, the nondimensional unsteady temperature profile for small values of the Biot number, Bi. In consequence, the nondimensional spatial average entropy generation rate per unit volume, Φ and the corresponding average steady-state entropy generation rate, Ψ, were evaluated for different values of the nondimensional heat generation parameter β. This parameter represents physically the ratio of the temperature of the solid slab (due to the internal heat generation) to the fluid temperature. We show that for the assumed values of this parameter β, the nondimensional temperature and entropy generation rate variables present a very sensible dependence between both parameters, indicating a direct relationship between the basic heat transfer mechanics: heat conduction, heat convection and internal heat generation.
AB - In this paper, we treat the unsteady entropy generation rate due to an instantaneous internal heat generation in a solid slab. Following the basic ideas developed by Bejan [Heat Transfer, Wiley, 1993], we conduct a multiple-scale analysis identifying the "early" and "late" regimes to derive, in a very simple way, the nondimensional unsteady temperature profile for small values of the Biot number, Bi. In consequence, the nondimensional spatial average entropy generation rate per unit volume, Φ and the corresponding average steady-state entropy generation rate, Ψ, were evaluated for different values of the nondimensional heat generation parameter β. This parameter represents physically the ratio of the temperature of the solid slab (due to the internal heat generation) to the fluid temperature. We show that for the assumed values of this parameter β, the nondimensional temperature and entropy generation rate variables present a very sensible dependence between both parameters, indicating a direct relationship between the basic heat transfer mechanics: heat conduction, heat convection and internal heat generation.
KW - Conduction
KW - Entropy generation
KW - Internal heat generation
KW - Lumped model
KW - Multiple-scale analysis
KW - Solid slab
KW - Transient
KW - Unsteady heat conduction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2004.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2004.10.006
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1290-0729
VL - 44
SP - 570
EP - 576
JO - International Journal of Thermal Sciences
JF - International Journal of Thermal Sciences
IS - 6
ER -