Talk:Rate of heat flow

Merge with some other article

This should probably be merged with heat transfer or some other article. I've added some relevant things to what links here. Redirects should be created for things like heat transfer rate and heat flow rate, but I thought I'd wait to see about merging first. If I don't get around to it, maybe somebody else with more expertise in the area will pick up the ball and come up with a sensible, cross-linked system. Gene Nygaard (talk) 04:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. It has the same formula as thermal conduction given here: Thermal_conduction#Integral_form. 128.32.47.205 (talk) 20:43, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

"Heat flow" is probably not redundant

"Heat is the flow of thermal energy driven by thermal non-equilibrium, so that 'heat flow' is a redundancy "

I don't think this is correct. Page Heat says: "heat is energy in transfer to or from a thermodynamic system"

Ie: According to that page, "heat" is a special name for energy under a particular circumstance, which is during transfers of a particular kind. It is not a name for the transfer, per se.

If you accept that, then "heat flow" simply means "flow of specially-named energy". Gwideman (talk) 15:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)