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Dec 12, 2024
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ME 318 - Heat Transfer4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course covers the three fundamental mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. The course includes steady state and transient conduction, free and forced convention, as well as heat exchanger design. (prereq: ME 311 , ME 2101 , ME 3103 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to model physical systems subject to heat transfer, using calculus and differential equations
- Demonstrate the ability to solve the related differential equations, and concretely relate the results to an observable heat transfer process
- Apply models of conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer, and to solve practical engineering heat transfer problems
Prerequisites by Topic
- Fluid mechanics
- Differential equations
- 1st Law of Thermodynamics
Course Topics
- Introduction to heat transfer (rate laws for the three heat transfer mechanisms)
- The heat diffusion equations
- One-dimensional steady-state conduction for planar, cylindrical, and spherical geometry
- Electrical circuit analogy to heat transfer analysis
- Fins
- Transient lumped capacitance method
- Physical significance of dimensionless parameters
- Forced convection (external flow)
- Forced convection (internal flow)
- Free convection
- Heat exchangers
- Radiation overview
Coordinator
Christopher Damm
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