CATALOG DATA:
Forced convection in ducts; Graetz solution and extensions; free or forced flow boundary layer heat transfer; turbulent heat transfer; combined forced and free convection; heat transfer including phase change.TEXTBOOK:
NoneTopics:
- Governing equations for thermal convection: Problem classification, governing hydrodynamic and energy equations, boundary layer equations and initial and boundary conditions, extension to internal flow problems.
- Analytical solution techniques for laminar boundary layers with heat transfer: Similarity solutions, boundary-value calculations of similarity equations, series expansion solutions, integral solutions and improvement, weighted-residue methods, local non-similarity method.
- Turbulence models for simple shear flows with heat transfer: Nature of turbulence models, examples of turbulence models, models for turbulent Prandtl number.
- Calculation of turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer: Integral methods, differential field methods.
- Finite difference solutions: Formulations for finite-difference calculations, explicit and implicit schemes and their trade-offs, explicit scheme and computer algorithms, Patankar and Spalding method, the box scheme.
- Heat transfer in duct flows: The Graetz problem and its extensions, hydrodynamically and thermally developing flows, numerical solutions.
- Introduction to boiling and condensation heat transfer: The boiling curve, nucleate boiling and bubble dynamics, simple film boiling analysis, Nusselt theory of laminar film condensation, heat transfer in two-phase flow systems.
ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared the course description:
Engineering Science: 3 credits or 100%
Engineering Design: 0 creditsPrepared by: Professor K.T. Yang
Last Update: March 27, 1992
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