Question: ( 2 ) Consider a person with a skin / fat layer of thickness 3 mm and effective thermal conductivity 0 . 3 W m

(2) Consider a person with a skin / fat layer of thickness 3 mm and effective thermal conductivity 0.3WmK.
The person has a surface area 1.8m2 and wears snow suit made from silica aerogel insulation with very
low thermal conductivity of 0.014WmK. The outer surface of skin/fat layer is exposed to the environment
(air or water) at 10C, and its inner surface is at a temperature 35C. The emissivity of the outer surface of
the snow suit is 0.95. What thickness of aerogel insulation is needed to reduce the rate of heat loss to 100 W
in air and water? What are the resulting skin temperatures?
Convection heat transfer coefficient (Air) : 2Wm2K
Convection heat transfer coefficient (Water) : 200Wm2K.
( 2 ) Consider a person with a skin / fat layer

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