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Heat Transfer from Water to Ice by Thermal Convection

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HEAT transfer may be described by the coefficient α occurring in Newton's law of cooling, the other factors being the surface and the temperature difference. For bodies determined by one dimension, for example, a sphere of diameter D in an infinite fluid of conductivity λ, it is better to use the dimensionless Nusselt number Nu = αD/λ.

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DUMORÉ, J., MERK, H. & PRINS, J. Heat Transfer from Water to Ice by Thermal Convection. Nature 172, 460–461 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172460b0

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