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No rating yet Subject: Re: Thermal analysis in electric motors Author: Christopher Wright Date: 1969-12-31 23:59:00>Is there any rule of thumb, say, based on ratio of surface characteristic >length to gap height, to determine when the gap can be treated as mostly in >conduction? Not a rule of thumb--It's a data correlation between Grashhof number and Nusselt number and you can find it in most heat transfer books. It's easy to use.
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