CATALOG DATA:
Fundamentals of heat convection and radiation, scalings and heat transfer analysis in external and internal flows, turbulent heat transfer, thermal radiation properties of ideal and real surfaces, radiative transfer in black and gray enclosures, introduction to radiative transfer with participating media.

TEXTBOOK:
Class notes per instructor.

GOALS:
This course is designed to (a) derive the basic governing equations of heat transfer, (b) obtain exact, approximate and numerical solutions, (c) analyze stability and long-time behavior of ordinary and partial differential models.

Topics:

• Review (conduction, convection, radiation, phase change, heat exchangers).
• Systems with no spatial dimension (dynamics, thermal control).
• Systems with one spatial dimension (conduction, forced convection, natural convection, moving boundary).
• Multiple spatial dimensions (conduction, forced convection, natural convection, porous media, moving boundary).
• Complex systems (radiation, phase change, microscale heat transfer, heat exchangers, soft computing).

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared the course description:
Engineering Science: 1.5 credits or 50%
Engineering Design: 1.5 credits or 50%

Prepared by: Professor Mihir Sen
Last Update: May 10, 2004

 

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