Maximum Stove Heat Flux

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Maximum Stove Heat Flux

• By Brandon Mecham and Jeremy Nowland

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Our Experiment

• Determine the significance of the thermal
  conductivities of three metals on their heat
  fluxes
• Aluminum
• Brass
• Steel

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Data Acquisition
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Data
  L (m) k (W/mK) T1 (C) T2 (C) q (kW/m2)
Aluminum 0.234 240 280 60.7 224.9
Brass 0.234 120 280 47.4 119.3
Steel 0.234 58.7 280 43.1 59.4
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Thermal Conductivity vs. Heat flux
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Conclusions

• This experiment confirms our hypothesis that
  there is a linear relationship between the
  thermal conductivity and the heat flux