Units of Heat Transfer
Description
Examples
Heat transfer has the dimension mass per time cubed thermodynamic temperature. The SI composite unit of heat transfer is the kilogram per second cubed kelvin.
Maple knows the units of heat transfer listed in the following table.
Name
Symbols
Context
Alternate Spellings
Prefixes
Ufactor
standard *
Ufactors
USI @
SI
An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively. Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, tog[standard]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, tog.
The units of heat transfer are defined as follows.
A standard U factor is defined as 1 international table Btu per hour square foot degree Fahrenheit.
An SI U factor (USI) is defined as 1 watt per square meter kelvin.
convert⁡Ufactor,dimensions,base=true
massthermodynamic_temperature⁢time3
convert⁡1,units,Ufactor,USI
527527926319290304000
convert⁡1,units,USI,kgs3⁢K
1
See Also
convert/dimensions
convert/units
heat_insulation_coefficient
Units
Units/heat_insulation
Units/Index
Units/mass
Units/temperature
Units/time
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