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LECTURE NO.6<br />

HEAT SOURCE SYSTEMS: ONE-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE HEAT<br />

CONDUCTION WITH HEAT GENERATION: HEAT FLOW THROUGH<br />

SLAB / PLANE WALL<br />

HEAT-SOURCE SYSTEMS<br />

A number of interesting applications of the principles of heat transfer<br />

are concerned with systems in which heat may be generated internally.<br />

Nuclear reactors are one example; electrical conductors and chemically<br />

reacting systems are others.<br />

Fig.6.1 Sketch illustrating one- dimensional conduction problem with<br />

heat generation.<br />

One-dimensional steady state heat conduction with heat generation:<br />

Heat Flow through slab / Plane Wall<br />

Consider the plane wall with uniformly distributed heat sources shown<br />

in the above Figure. The thickness of the wall in the x direction is 2L, and it is<br />

assumed that, the dimensions in the other directions are sufficiently large that<br />

the heat flow may be considered as one-dimensional. The heat generated per<br />

unit volume is q • , and we assume that the thermal conductivity does not vary<br />

with temperature. (This situation might be produced in a practical situation by<br />

passing a current through an electrically conducting material)<br />

The differential equation which governs the heat flow is

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