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Heat transfers at low temperature

Authors: Bertrand BAUDOUY, Gérard DEFRESNE, Patxi DUTHIL, Jean-Pierre THERMEAU

Publication date: January 10, 2015, Review date: October 28, 2019

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3. Convection

3.1 Single-phase convection

To quantify the heat flow transferred by convection to a wall, we use Newton's law, which introduces the notion of the parietal heat exchange coefficient, h. In simple form, it can be written as :

q˙=h  (Ts−Tf)( 29 )

with :

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