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Status: The course is completed.

Course Duration: ~20 weeks

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Resources

• Convection Heat Transfer by A. Bejan [Book link] 

Additional resources:

• Album of Fluid Motion by Milton Van Dyke [Book link]

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Course Content

Section 0: Fluid Mechanics Essentials

In this section, we will revisit a few essential concepts to build an intuition for fluid mechanics.

Lecture 0.1: Fluids (Lecture)

Lecture 0.2: Describing Fluids (Lecture)

Lecture 0.3: Kinematics of Fluid Motion (Lecture)

Lecture 0.4: Fluid Transport (Lecture)

Lecture 0.5: Conservation Laws (Lecture)

Lecture 0.6: Miscellaneous definitions (Lecture)

Section 1: Preliminaries

The basics covered in this section is crucial to understand the concept of stability. Introductory discussion to forced convection.

Lecture 1.1 - Preliminaries-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 1.2 - Preliminaries-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 1.3 - Preliminaries-3 (Lecture)

Lecture 1.4 - Preliminaries-4 (Lecture)

Section 2: External Forced Convection - Scaling Analysis

One of the basic approaches to solve the momentum and thermal boundary layer based on dominant scales.

Lecture 2.1 - Scaling Analysis-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 2.2 - Scaling Analysis-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 2.3 - Scaling Analysis-3 (Lecture)

Section 3: External Forced Convection - Similarity Solution

One of the basic approaches to solve the momentum and thermal boundary layer based on a similarity parameter.

Lecture 3.1 - Similarity Solution-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 3.2 - Similarity Solution-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 3.3 - Similarity Solution-3 (Lecture)

Section 4:  External Forced Convection - Integral Solution

One of the basic approaches to solve the momentum and thermal boundary layer based on an approximate profile.

Lecture 4.1 -  Integral Solution-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 4.2 -  Integral Solution-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 4.3 -  Integral Solution-3 (Lecture)

Lecture 4.4 -  Integral Solution-4 (Lecture)

Lecture 4.5 -  Integral Solution-5 (Lecture)

Section 5:  External Forced Convection - Generalized cases

Several important frameworks to solve the generalized boundary conditions.

Lecture 5.1 -  Suction and Blowing cases (Lecture)

Lecture 5.2 -  Falkner Skan solution-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 5.3 -  Falkner Skan solution-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 5.4 -  Arbitrary wall temperature (Lecture)

Section 6:  Internal Forced Convection

Several important cases associated with internal duct flows discussed and analysed.

Lecture 6.1 -  Internal Convection-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.2 -  Internal Convection-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.3 -  Fully developed flow-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.4 -  Fully developed flow-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.5 -  Fully developed flow-3 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.6 -  Fully developed flow-4 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.7 -  Fully developed flow-5 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.8 -  Developing flow-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.9 -  Developing flow-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.10 -  Slug flow-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.11 -  Slug flow-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 6.12 -  Power law fluids (Lecture)

Section 7:  Natural Convection

Introductory discussion to natural convection with density gradient and gravity.

Lecture 7.1 -  Natural Convection-1 (Lecture)

Lecture 7.2 -  Natural Convection-2 (Lecture)

Lecture 7.3 -  Natural Convection-3 (Lecture)

Lecture 7.4 -  Natural Convection-4 (Lecture)

Lecture 7.5 -  Natural Convection-5 (Lecture)

Lecture 7.6 -  Natural Convection-6 (Lecture)