ME 546
CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER

Course Description

An advanced treatment of forced and natural convection heat transfer processes emphasizing the underlying physical phenomena. Current topical literature will be considered; analytical problem solving is included.

Topics

• Conservation equations for laminar and turbulent flows
• Order of magnitude analysis
• Integral analysis
• Similarity analysis
• Natural convection
• Forced convection
• External flow
• Internal flow
• Momentum and heat transfer analogy

Learning Outcomes

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

• Identify various terms in a convective heat transport equation and assess their importance by an order of magnitude analysis.
• Analyze classical external and internal convective flows using differential and integral solution techniques.
• Comprehend and critically interpret literature in convection heat transfer.