Heat transfer
Undergraduate · Engineering
Syllabus focus
Standard syllabus · STEM / applied
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Topics typically covered
Standard syllabus
Conduction
- Fourier's law and thermal conductivity
- One-dimensional steady conduction in plane walls
- Thermal resistance and composite wall networks
- Cylindrical and spherical steady conduction
- Heat generation in solids (uniform and distributed)
- Transient conduction: lumped capacitance method
- Semi-infinite solid and error function solutions (intro)
- Fin analysis: efficiency and effectiveness
- Two-dimensional conduction: shape factors (intro)
- Boundary conditions: specified temperature, flux, and convection
Convection and radiation
- Newton's law of cooling and heat transfer coefficient
- Dimensionless groups: Nusselt, Reynolds, Prandtl, Grashof
- External flow: flat plate and cylinder correlations
- Internal flow: entrance region and fully developed pipe flow
- Natural convection on vertical surfaces (correlations)
- Boiling regimes and condensation types (survey)
- Heat exchangers: LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods
- Thermal radiation: blackbody and Stefan-Boltzmann law
- View factors and gray surface networks
- Combined modes: overall heat transfer coefficient U
STEM / applied
System design and analysis
- Heat exchanger design and fouling factors
- Electronic cooling: fins, heat sinks, and TIMs
- Building envelope and HVAC load implications
- Insulation selection and economic thickness
- Solar thermal collectors (intro performance models)
- Manufacturing processes: quenching and casting solidification
- CFD for conjugate heat transfer (workflow overview)
- MATLAB/Python for transient lumped models
- Lab: convection measurements and IR thermography
- Design project: heat exchanger or cooling system sizing
Multiphysics and advanced survey
- Phase change materials and latent heat storage
- Porous media and packed bed heat transfer
- Nanofluids and enhanced surfaces (literature survey)
- Radiation in participating media (intro)
- Microscale heat transfer and ballistic transport (overview)
- Thermoelectric devices and heat pumps
- Energy conservation audits using HT principles
- Failure analysis: overheating in motors and batteries
- FE heat transfer topic alignment
- Standards: ASHRAE and ASME references at survey level
Notes
Topics reflect common engineering syllabi at US colleges and universities. Exact order, depth, and applied emphasis vary by institution, department, and instructor.