AH112P FREE and FORCED CONVECTION FROM FLAT, PINNED and FINNED PLATES Educational Equipment Thermal Transfer Experiment Equipment
A bench top accessory designed to allow students to experimentally investigate both free (natural) convection and forced convection.
The accessory includes a small, variable velocity wind tunnel with a digital velocity meter and a central aperture. Three plates with integral heaters and temperature sensors are also supplied that are designed to fit in the central aperture in the wind tunnel.
A heated flat plate with surface thermocouple may be directly compared with a similar pinned plate and finned plate also fitted with a surface thermocouple.
In addition to expanding understanding of the heat transfer enhancement from extended surfaces, the pinned and finned plates each have three thermocouples arranged at intervals along a fin and a pin. This allows investigation of the temperature distribution along the extended surfaces.
