Abstract
It is known that as a substance is heated, its temperature increases, thus heat is a kind of energy. This was demonstrated by the British scientist J.P. Joule (1818–1889) in a famous experiment. Heat energy travels from one place to another in several ways. Heat always tends to flow from a region of high temperature to a region of low temperature. There are three basic method by which heat transfer may take place.
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Huang, HC., Usmani, A.S. (1994). Governing Differential Equations. In: Finite Element Analysis for Heat Transfer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2091-9_2
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