When can the conductive thermal resistance of the tube in a heat exchanger be neglected in overall heat transfer coefficient calculation? Never When the tube is thin or the material is highly conductive When the tube is thin.     When the tube material is highly conductive.           Which of the following sentence(s) is/are true? We cannot calculate thermal resistance of a solid slab. Thermal resistance concept is applicable only in Cartesian or Cylindrical coordinate.   We cannot calculate ther

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When can the conductive thermal resistance of the tube in a heat exchanger be neglected in overall heat transfer coefficient calculation?

Never

When the tube is thin or the material is highly conductive

When the tube is thin.

 

 

When the tube material is highly conductive.

 

 

 

 

 

Which of the following sentence(s) is/are true?

We cannot calculate thermal resistance of a solid slab.

Thermal resistance concept is applicable only in Cartesian or Cylindrical coordinate.
 

We cannot calculate thermal resistance of a solid cylinder.

 

 

 

To apply thermal resistance concept, a problem only needs to be one dimensional and steady.

 

 

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