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ME3350J – Heat Transfer
Instructor: Hua Bao
Instructors (Faculty):
Credits: 3 credits
Pre-requisites: Vm 320
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 radiation properties, enclosure radiation exchange; surface convection/fluid streams over objects, nondimensional numbers, laminar, turbulent, thermobuoyant flow, boiling and condensation; heat exchangers; design of thermal systems, solvers for problem-solving/design. Emphasis is placed on identifying, formulating, and solving complex engineering problems.
Course Topics:
- Conservation of energy, rate equation
- Physics of conductivity, steady-state and transient conduction, thermal resistance and thermal circuit models and analysis
- Surface convection of fluid streams passing over objects, Nusselt, Prandtl, Reynolds, analytical relations and correlations for the Nusselt number
- Laminar, turbulent, parallel, perpendicular, and thermobuoyant flows, boiling and condensation
- Surface convection and convection of internal fluid streams, heat exchangers
- Physics of surface radiation, surface radiation properties, surface enclosure radiation exchange, thermal circuit modeling, nongray surfaces, inclusion of the heat transfer through the substrate