Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol.20, No.1, 88-90, 1999
Minimum mass design of radiating radial fin of trapezoidal profile
This article presents the optimum design of a radiating radial fin of trapezoidal profile. Optimum parameters for rectangular and triangular profiles are given in the form of simple correlations. Using these, the base thickness and the length of the fin can be easily determined from the given data of heat dissipation, thermal conductivity, emittance, base radius, base temperature, and environment temperature.