Course Description
Conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer will be covered from an analytical and applications viewpoint. Computer tools for solving heat transfer problems will be emphasized. Projects will involve the analyses of a research-related or design-related heat transfer problem involving at least two of the three heat transfer modalities.
Athena Title
Advanced Heat Transfer
Prerequisite
ENGR 6101 and ENGR 8102 and ENGR 8103
Pre or Corequisite
ENGR 8160 or CVLE(MCHE) 8160
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to prepare students for confidently performing conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer analyses for bench, prototype and field/industrial scale problems, using conventional and advanced computational approaches. The student will have much experience with shell balances.
Topical Outline
I. Thermal Conductivity and the Mechanism of energy transport. II. Similarities and interactions with energy transport and with momentum and mass transport – derivation of the total mechanical energy equation from the Navier-Stokes momentum transport equation. III. Shell energy balances and temperature distributions in solids and in laminar flows. IV. Shell energy balances and energy transport mechanisms with natural and forced convection. V. Radiation heat transfer and its potential contribution to the shell energy balance. VI. Research-Design Analyses.