ME 332
HEAT TRANSFER

Course Description

A treatment of conductive, convective, and radiative energy transfer using control volume and differential analysis and prediction of transport properties.

Topics

• Energy balance in thermal systems
• One-dimensional steady and transient conduction
• Introduction to numerical solution techniques
• Analogy of momentum, heat, and mass transfer: order of magnitude analysis
• Forced convective heat transfer in internal and external flows
• Heat exchangers
• Natural convection
• Ideal (black body) radiative exchange
• Gray body radiative exchange

Learning Outcomes

The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:

• Perform an energy balance to heat-transfer systems to solve engineering problems.
• Invoke the proper use of conductive, convective, and radiative modes of heat transfer to analyze single- and multi-mode thermal engineering problems.
• Predict the thermal response of engineering systems to energy transfer mechanisms for transient and steady-state situations.
• Use a variety of engineering correlations to heat transfer analyses.
• Design and analyze thermal and fluidic engineering components and systems, in particular, heat exchangers.