A steel billet is to be heat treated by immersion in a molten salt bath. The billet

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A steel billet is to be heat treated by immersion in a molten salt bath. The billet is 5 cm square and 1 m long. Prior to immersion in the bath, the billet is at a uniform temperature of 20°C. The bath is at 600°C and the heat transfer coefficient at the billet surface is 20 W/(m2K). Plot the temperature at the center of the billet as a function of time. How much time is needed to heat the billet center to 500°C? Use an implicit difference scheme with node spacing of 1 cm. The thermal conductivity of the steel is 40 W/(m K) and the thermal diffusivity is 1 \ 10–5 m2/s.
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Steel billet undergoing heat treatment

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Principles of heat transfer

ISBN: 978-0495667704

7th Edition

Authors: Frank Kreith, Raj M. Manglik, Mark S. Bohn

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