Rules of Heat Transfer Series: Impact of Movement of Fluids

摘要

In the first installment of our series "What is Heat Transfer?" we talked a little bit about how the medium that we are trying to heat or cool can have an impact on how successful we are at transferring heat. We discussed how properties such as specific heat and density directly affect the calculation of heat transfer. A forced convection heat exchanger (what a radiator really is) is dependent upon the movement of fluids to function. How those fluids respond to this movement once again has a lot to do with how successful we are at transferring heat.