Courses Detail Information
ME3350J – Heat Transfer
Instructors:
Credits:
3 credits
Pre-requisites:
ME3200J
Description:
Lectures designed to introduce the student to the basics of heat transfer. Topics include conduction, convection, radiation; heat storage, energy conservation; steady-state/transient conduction heat transfer; thermal circuit modeling; multidimensional conduction; surface convection/fluid streams over objects, nondimensional numbers, laminar, turbulent, thermobuoyant flow, boiling and condensation; heat exchangers; design of thermal systems; surface radiation properties, enclosure radiation exchange
Course Topics:
1. Conservation of energy, rate equation
2. Physics of conductivity, steady-state and transient conduction, thermal resistance and thermal circuit models and analysis
3. Surface convection of fluid streams passing over objects, Nusselt, Prandtl, Reynolds, analytical relations and correlations for the Nusselt number
4. Internal flows
5. External flows
6. Laminar, turbulent, parallel, perpendicular, and thermobuoyant flows, boiling and condensation
7. Heat exchangers
8. Physics of surface radiation, surface radiation properties, surface enclosure radiation exchange, thermal circuit modeling, nongray surfaces