Heat Transfer Lab

About the Lab

Heat transfer laboratory (10MEL67/15MEL67) is a part of the mechanical engineering curriculum and is offered as a core course in the 6th semester.

The lab deals with experimental investigations of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer and some applications of heat transfer. The objectives of the course are listed below:

To introduce the students to the concepts of heat transfer through laboratory assignments.
To conduct experiments on steady and transient state heat transfer.
To perform experiments on heat convection due to external and internal fluid flow.
To perform experiments on radiation heat transfer and heat transfer applications including heat exchangers, refrigeration and air conditioning.
To solve heat transfer problems using numerical methods.

List of experiments

Determination of thermal conductivity of a metal rod
Determination of Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient of a Composite wall
Determination of Effectiveness on a Metallic fin
Determination of Heat Transfer Coefficient in Free Convection over a vertical tube, Emissivity of a Surface
Determination of Heat Transfer Coefficient in Forced Convention for Flow through a Pipe
Analysis of steady and transient heat conduction, temperature distribution of plane wall and cylinder using Numerical approach
Determination of Stefan Boltzmann Constant
Determination of LMDT and Effectiveness for Parallel Flow and Counter Flow Heat Exchangers
Experiments on Boiling of Liquid and Condensation of Vapour
Performance Test on a Vapour Compression Refrigeration and Vapour Compression Air – Conditioner.
Experiment on Transient Conduction Heat Transfer
Determination of temperature distribution along a rectangular and circular fin subjected to heat loss through convection using Numerical approach

Text books and reference material

1. Incropera and DeWitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass transfer, John Wiley and Sons.

2. http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahttv212.pdf

3. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112101097/

CFD and simulation

4. https://www.openfoam.com/download/install-binary-windows.php

5. http://energy.concord.org/energy2d/models.html

6. https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/SIMULATION/Home