DENSO Climate Control
Education and Research Laboratory
Activities
ME 379 Project
Thermal Resistance of an automotive door.

The objective of this lab was to demonstrate steady state heat conduction by measuring the thermal resistance of a car door.  Below is a picture of the instrumented door. 

Below are the results of the students' experiment.
ME 379 Project
"Demonstration of the Epsilon-NTU method for rating a crossflow heat exchanger."