A colleague asked me what if he did not have time or resources to do the experiments that have been developed at University of South Florida (USF) for numerical methods. He asked if I could share the data taken at USF.
Why not – here is the data for the experiment where an aluminum cylinder is placed in iced water. This link also has the exercises that the students were asked to do.
The temperature vs time data is as follows: (0,23.3), (5,16.3), (10,13), (15,11.8), (20,11), (25,10.7), (30,9.6), (35,8.9), (40,8.4). Time is in seconds and temperature in Celcius. Other data needed is
Ambient temperature of iced water = 1.1oC
Diameter of cylinder = 44.57 mm
Length of cylinder = 105.47 mm
Density of aluminum = 2700 kg/m3
Specific heat of aluminum = 901 J/(kg-oC)
Thermal conductivity of aluminum = 240 W/(m-K)
Table 1. Coefficient of thermal expansion vs. temperature for aluminum (Data taken from http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/pdf/322526.pdf by using mid values of temperatures at which CTE is reported)
|
Temperature (oC) |
Coefficient of thermal expansion (μm/m/oC) |
|
-10 |
58 |
|
12.5 |
59 |
|
37.5 |
60 |
|
62.5 |
62 |
|
87.5 |
66 |
|
112.5 |
71 |
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