Standard syllabus
Heat transfer · Undergraduate · Engineering
Topics
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
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