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Chapter 12 Problem 12.116

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Plant leaves possess small channels that connect theinterior moist region of the leaf to the environment.The channels, called stomata, pose the primary resis-tance to moisture transport through the entire plant,and the diameter of an individual stoma is sensitiveto the level of CO2in the atmosphere. Consider a leafof corn (maize) whose top surface is exposed to solarirradiation of GS?600 W/m2and an effective sky temperature of Tsky?0C. The bottom side of theleaf is irradiated from the ground which is at atemperature of Tg?20C. Both the top and bottomof the leaf are subjected to convective conditionscharacterized by h?35 W/m2?K, T??25C andalso experience evaporation through the stomata.Assuming the evaporative flux of water vapor is50?10?6kg/m2?s under rural atmospheric CO2concentrations and is reduced to 5?10?6kg/m2?swhen ambient CO2concentrations are doubled nearan urban area, calculate the leaf temperature in therural and urban locations. The heat of vaporization ofwater is hfg?2400 kJ/kg and assume ????0.97for radiation exchange with the sky and the ground,and ?S?0.76 for solar irradiation.

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Title Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer 7 
Author Theodore L. Bergman; Adrienne S. Lavine; Frank P. Incropera; David P. DeWitt
ISBN 9780470501979

Plant leaves possess small channels that connect

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