A stainless steel plate 1.6cm thick rests on top of a hot plate, which is maintained at 250C. Air flows over the top of the surface of the plate to provide a convective heat-transfer coefficeint of h = 50W/m^2K. The air temperature is maintained at 20C.
a. What is the heat flux through the stainless steel plate, in W/m^2?
b. What is the temperature at the top surface, T1, of the stainless steel plate?
c. Based on the anaysis above, what can you conclude about the heat transfer resistance offered by the hydrodynamic boundary layer?