ME-331 Heat & Mass Transfer

This course begins with the study of modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation, and basic laws governing those heat transfer modes. Students learn one-dimensional steady and transient conduction for planar, cylindrical, and spherical geometries. The lumped capacitance analysis is taught for transient conduction when appropriate. Analytical and numerical methods are presented for conduction problems, including the analysis of extended surfaces. Convection heat transfer is taught in both internal and external geometries and under laminar and turbulent flow regimes. External flows include cooling on flat plates due to laminar and turbulent boundary layer flows, and cooling of cylinders due to cross flow. The convection heat transfer analysis in internal flows considers laminar and turbulent pipe flows. Free convection is also considered where heat transfer is due to flow induced by fluid buoyancy. Radiation heat transfer is studied by considering both the general characteristics of radiation as well as the properties of radiating surfaces and radiation heat transfer between surfaces. Methods for solving multi-mode heat transfer are taught throughout the course. Heat exchangers and heat transfer from extended surfaces are two applications which are also included in the course.

Credit Hours: 3 (3-0)

Contact Hours:  03 hrs (Theory) per week

Schedule: 

Syn B: Monday (1400-1540 hrs, CRM-3 BS&H), Friday (1130-1220 hrs, CRM-3 BS&H)
Syn C: Monday (1035-1125 hrs, CRM-4 BS&H), Wednesday (1035-1220 hrs, CRM-4 BS&H)

Text Book

1. Yunus A. Cengel, "Heat Transfer".

2. Frank P. Incropera, David P. Dewitt, Theodore L. Bergman, "Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer". 

Reference Book

1. J. P. Holman, "Heat Transfer".

Course Outline