Heat Transfer Winter 2014Westley Christensen and Kendal Frogget

What type of phone case has the best heat flux?

Three types of phone cases used Metal leather Plastic

Heat PropertiesAluminum:

k=167 W/m2K t=1mm

Leather: k=.159 W/m2K t=1.57mm

Plastic: k=.2 W/m2K t=1.5mm

For the estimated heat flux, contact resistance was assumed to be 0 and the convection coefficient to be the same for all cases.

q”

Thickness (t)

Phone Case

RContact Rcond Rconv

T∞= 12 W/m2*K

(Uniform heat source)

Phone was ran using a hand warmer app until steady state temperature was reached.

The temperature of the surface was measured using a heat gun.

Heat flux was calculated based on surface temperature

Calculations shown in appendix

The experimental results were accurate with plastic and leather but were off with the aluminum.

The two reasons that we believed this to be the case was because the aluminum was at a colder starting temperature and dsitrubuted the heat evenly throughout the material rather than having a localized heat transfer.

Metal would still be recommended as the cover material to dissapate the generated heat but not burn your hand. Plastic and leather are about the same.

Predicted heat flux calculations:q”= (T1-T∞)/A(Rcond+Rconv), ARcond=1/k, ARconv=1/h

Experimental heat flux:Gr=gβ(Ts-T∞)L3/ν2, Nu=(Gr/4)1/4 ×g(Pr), h=Nu×k/L,q”=h(Ts-T∞)L=4A/P=.2m