Course Objective: This course aims to provide students with an understanding of and competence in solving classical heat transfer problems in engineering.

Contents

The course is related to the concepts regarding heat transfer.

Text Books:

1. Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, 2nd Edition McGraw Hill, by Yunus A. Cengel.

Reference Books:

1. Thermodynamics an Engineering Approach, 5th Edition McGraw Hill, by Yunus A. Cengel and Michael A. Boles.

2. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 6th Edition, F. Incopera, D. DeWitt, T. Bergman, A. Lavine

Course Outline:

Syllabus

1. Introduction to heat transfer and its modes.

2. Steady state heat conduction in plane walls, Generalized thermal resistance networks, examples

3. Heat conduction in cyclinders and spheres, examples

4. Heat transfer from finned surfaces, the derivation of the fin equation and different boundary conditions

5. the fin efficiency and fin effectiveness

6. Newton’s law of cooling

7. Nusselt number

8. Laminar and turbulent flows, Reynolds Number

9. Velocity and thermal boundary layers, Prandtl number,

10. Heat transfer coefficient of parallel flow over flat plates + examples

11. Flow across cylinders and spheres +examples

12. Internal Forced Convection: Average velocity and temperature, Laminar and turbulent flows in tubes, the entrance region

13. General thermal analysis + examples

14. Turbulent flows in tubes + examples

15. Natural convection: Eqution of motion and the Grashof number, Natural convection over surfaces.

16. Natural convection from finned surfaces and PCBs, Natural convection inside enclosures,

17. Introduction, Thermal radiation, Blackbody radiation,

18. Stephen Boltzman Law, Plank’s law, Wien’s displacement law , examples

19. Radiative properties, Kirchoff’s law, View factors