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A Rapid Laser Probing Method Facilitates the Non-invasive and Contact-free Determination of Leaf Thermal Properties
Published on: January 7, 2017
Convective heat transfer characteristics of toothed leaves
Douglas E Gottschlich1, Alan P Smith2,3
1Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract:
Model leaves were used to test the hypothesis that serrate leaves have more convective heat loss than entire leaves of the same average size. Convection coefficients were positively correlated with size of teeth, supporting the hypothesis. Experimental results were in close agreement with theoretical predictions, which assumed an inverse correlation between depth of serration and effective leaf dimension.
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