MECH4012

Heat Transfer

Spring 2017, 2018

Textbook: F. Kreith and R. M. Manglik, Principles of Heat Transfer, 8th Ed. (Cengage, 2018).

This course is an introduction to the principal concepts and methods of heat transfer. The specific objectives of this course are:

1. To give students an understanding of basic principles and laws of heat transfer.

2. To formulate the models necessary to analyze and design heat transfer systems through the application of these principles.

3. To develop the problem-solving skills essential to engineering practice of heat transfer in real-world applications.

This course is open for ME undergraduate students. To take this course you must have taken the following course: MECH2010 Thermodynamics, and MECH3011 Fluid Mechanics with minimum grade D-. 

Topics to be covered:

1. Conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer. 

2. One-dimensional steady conduction and extended surfaces. 

3. Unsteady conduction and lumped model. 

4. Analysis of internal and external, laminar and turbulent, forced convection in basic geometry. 

5. Heat transfer correlations for more complex geometries. 

6. Black body radiation, view factor and radiant exchange between surfaces. 

7. Analysis of heat transfer problems in important engineering systems of current interest and in energy related areas. 

Please click below for the complete course syllabus for Spring 2017.