Question: A 5 cm diameter radioactive sphere at steady state generates a total of 4 0 W of thermal energy. The sphere is covered by a

A 5 cm diameter radioactive sphere at steady state generates a total of 40 W of thermal energy. The sphere is
covered by a layer of insulation 27.5 cm thick so that the total outside diameter is 60 cm The thermal
conductivity of the radioactive material is 4.0Wm*K. The thermal conductivity of the insulation is 0.5
Wm*K. The insulated sphere is surrounded by a gas at 25C with a convective heat transfer coefficient of
20Wm2(K). Compute the temperatures at the following points:
(a) Outside insulation surface.
(b) Interface between radioactive material and insulation.
(c) Centre of radioactive sphere
The volume of a sphere is V=43r3 and the surface area of a sphere is A=4r2. This is a thermal energy generation in a spherical domain please use the general heat transfer equation in the spherical coordinates and boundary condtions.
A 5 cm diameter radioactive sphere at steady

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