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An infinitely long pin fin, attached to an isothermal hot surface, transfers heat at a steady rate of

to the ambient air. If the thermal conductivity of the fin material is doubled, while keeping everything else constant, the rate of steady-state heat transfer from the fin becomes

. The ratio

is
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GATE ME 2021 · Paper 1

Mechanical Engineering · Original paper archive

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Mechanical Engineering
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