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
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