Newton’s Cooling Rate Constant of Liquids for the Relative Assessment for Heat Transport

Abstract

Heat is the transfer of energy across the boundary of a system, driven by a temperature difference between the system and its surrounding environment. At moderate temperatures, the two mechanisms for heat transfer are conduction and convection, but the overall view of the issue is a transfer of molecular kinetic energy from hotter zones to colder zones of the system or to the environment, as stated in the early articles by Bridgman (1923), Osida (1939) and Mohanty (1951). Abstract