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  2. Convection (heat transfer) - Wikipedia

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    This color schlieren image reveals thermal convection from a human hand (in silhouette form) to the surrounding still atmosphere.. Two types of convective heat transfer may be distinguished:

  3. Nusselt number - Wikipedia

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    The Nusselt number is the ratio of total heat transfer (convection + conduction) to conductive heat transfer across a boundary. The convection and conduction heat flows are parallel to each other and to the surface normal of the boundary surface, and are all perpendicular to the mean fluid flow in the simple case.

  4. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    Earth's longwave thermal radiation intensity, from clouds, atmosphere and surface.. Heat transfer is the energy exchanged between materials (solid/liquid/gas) as a result of a temperature difference.

  5. Convection - Wikipedia

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    Simulation of thermal convection in the Earth's mantle.Hot areas are shown in red, cold areas are shown in blue. A hot, less-dense material at the bottom moves upwards, and likewise, cold material from the top moves downwards.

  6. Transport phenomena - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, physics, and chemistry, the study of transport phenomena concerns the exchange of mass, energy, charge, momentum and angular momentum between observed and studied systems.

  7. Prandtl number - Wikipedia

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    For air with a pressure of 1 bar, the Prandtl numbers in the temperature range between −100 °C and +500 °C can be calculated using the formula given below. [2] The temperature is to be used in the unit degree Celsius.

  8. Wiedemann–Franz law - Wikipedia

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    Electric circuit with metal and a battery U. The arrows indicate the direction of the electric field E and the electric current density j.. Qualitatively, this relationship is based upon the fact that the heat and electrical transport both involve the free electrons in the metal.

  9. Mass balance - Wikipedia

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    In physics, a mass balance, also called a material balance, is an application of conservation of mass [1] to the analysis of physical systems.By accounting for material entering and leaving a system, mass flows can be identified which might have been unknown, or difficult to measure without this technique.