Question: Problem 1 ( 3 . 5 points ) . You are a chemical engineer to develop to alloy materials composed of A and B metals.

Problem 1(3.5 points). You are a chemical engineer to develop to alloy materials composed of A and
B metals. Your team is about to develop the 1:1 volumetric alloy of A and B metals to form cylindrical
heat conductor (length: L=5m)(i.e., inner radius: r1=0.1m, outer radius: r2=2r1). Inside the
cylinder is hot air at T1=400K, while the outside of the cylinder is exposed to cold air at T2=300K.
The two metals have the same density, the same thermal expansion coefficient, but different heat
conductivities (i.e.,kA=0.1Wm*K and kB=2kA). For the conductor, you can consider that
there is orientational symmetry around the axis and the cylindrical conductor length is long enough. All
the physical constants are assumed to be fixed. For this problem, you can assume that the inner surface
temperature and outer surface temperature are equal to the
respectively.
The cylinder can be considered not being thermal expanded. Now, please address following questions.
1.1(1.5 points). As references samples, your team has a plan to make two samples; the first one is A
for the inner and B for the outer, and the second one is vice versa. Given the equal volumetric fractions
of A and B metals in the conductor, please calculate the overall heat transfer rates for the sample 1(Q1)
and sample 2(Q1), respectively.
1.2(1.5 points). To test the alloy composition, one of your colleagues suggests a linear composition.
To make 1:1 composition of A and B metals inside the cylinder, please design the composition profile
as a function of the radial direction (r). Given the fact that the heat conductivity is proportional to the
composition of A metal, please calculate the overall heat fluxes for the case 1 in which A is 100% at the
inner surface, while B is 100% at the outer surface and case 2 in which the composition is vice versa of
the case 1.
Problem 1 ( 3 . 5 points ) . You are a chemical

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