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Provide the word with a brief explanation:

Q1: The temperature measured in contact with an engine block was due primarily to thermal energy transfer by ----------.

Q2: The major source of engine cooling is via __________ cooling.


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Let me try again with a brief explanation:

1. Conduction. Heat is moving through the metal from the interior of the engine where it's generated to the outside.

2. Convection. Heat is moved via liquid fluid from the hot part to the radiator where it's cooled.
 
Conduction. Heat transfer through a solid medium.

Convective. Heat transfer through a gas or liquid medium.
 
Conduction - Heat conduction takes place between two objects in contact with each other.

Radiation - The emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.
 
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The three avenues of thermal energy (heat) transfer are:

1) Conduction - transfer of thermal energy by solid bodies in contact with each other in which thermal energy flows from the hotter to the cooler body,

2) Convection - thermal energy transfer by the FLOW of gasses and liquids,

3) Radiation - transfer of thermal energy by photons, mainly by Infra-Red (IR) photons.


Q1: The temperature measured in contact with an engine block was due primarily to thermal energy transfer by Conduction.

Q2: The major source of engine cooling is via Convection cooling.

Engine Heat Transfer Modeling and Simulation


Radiation does enter the picture but it's contribution to cooling in minimal, and has been studied in terms of diesel engine soot particulates.

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