Talk:Convection
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I thought it would be good to add that much study of convection also relates to motion of fluids such as water in solar energy and HVAC. --User:Jdpipe
This definition of convection as a heat transfer mechanism is archaic. It might be a natural physical phenomenon relying on gravitation but it is no more a heat transfer mechanism than picking up a red hot poker and plunging into a bath of cold water.
It might be more useful today to relate this process to efficiency. For example forced convection is quicker than natural convection, a heatpipe can tanfer more heat for a given volume etc. Transfer through use of Latent Heat exchange is also an extremely important mechanism. What would we call heat movement in a non-gravity situation caused by diffusion of a gas? User:rjstott
Equation with integral
In the equation that has the integral with apparently As as the lower limit, the subscript s for As does not show well. The s looks likes it's part of the integrand instead of the lower limit. I'm not sure at this time how to fix this problem. H Padleckas 11:06, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)