Talk:Heat transfer
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I've requested a peer review because I think that this article meets several of the Wikipedia criteria for becoming a featured article. I believe that this article is consise, covers the topic completely, is stable, and contains minimal point-of-view influence. I believe that this article describes a very complicated topic elegantly, and may be useful for both engineers and people with no engineering knowledge. If you agree that this article is a good candidate for becoming a featured article, please let me know. Otherwise, all of use who have worked on this article would appreciate your comments and edits.
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-Âme Errante 10:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
The link "Heat Transfer Links - Heat Transfer Links" located in the domian onesmartclick.com is nothing more than a page filled with Google advertisements. I would guess that someone edited it into this article to make money off people clicking that link. I'm removing the offending link. Jason 18:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
I´ve been doing some search for information in this subject and found a couple of available textbooks on the internet that will surely be usefull for expanding and also refining the concepts of heat transfer.
Please look at:
A Heat Transfer Textbook, John H. Lienhard V, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wolverine Engineering Data Book II, Dr. K.J. Bell and A.C. Mueller:
Wolverine Engineering Data Book III, Pr. John R. Thome:
Please comment what you think. WiKimik 19:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Don't confuse heat with energy
I removed the following statement from the intro paragraph:
because this is a misnomer. Heat is not, in fact, a type of energy; rather, heat is movement of energy (see the first sentance of the heat article). In reality, heat transfer is redundent: the transfer of the transfer of energy. A better name would perhaps be 'thermal transfer' in that one is transfering thermal energy.
- of course it is energy, check the units in any equation using heat(q).
- BTW the heat article is also wrong, i don't know where this idea started, as a physicist with 20 years kicking around science, wikipedia is the first place i've heard of it, this is very basic stuff to be getting this badly wrong.
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"Now although ice has a "rigid" crystalline form, its temperature can change-ice has heat. If we wish, we can change the amount of heat. What is the heat in the case of ice? The atoms are not standing still. They are jiggling and vibrating."
- Feynman lectures on physics, chapter 1, lecture 1
Asplace 17:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What about phase change?
Any serious treatment of heat transfer can not ignore phase change. Kjlgstp 14:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major problems with this article
transferring thermal energy from cold to hot is ok, (heat pumps), its only when no work is added, as in conductive, radiative and convective transfers that heat cannot, overall, move to a higher temperature.
also this article says heat transfer is by electrons and phonons only, if this were the case gases could not be conductors, missed out is heat carrying diffusion of any particles (atoms, molecules) in the system.
Asplace 03:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
