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Fluid dynamicist here. "Convective" heat transfer includes heat transfer by both advection (the bulk fluid movement) and conduction. You might think convection
by btrettel 9y ago
Fluid dynamicist here.
"Convective" heat transfer includes heat transfer by both advection (the bulk fluid movement) and conduction. You might think convection is just advection, and I will admit the terminology is used inconsistently.
- zeristor 8y agoErm, I'm a lapsed physics graduate. Thanks for the correction, I was also watching PBS Space Time on Red Dwarfs, and how small stars cool the core by convection. Larger stars use radiation in the core and so lose access to a majority of the mass of the star which could have been used for fuel.