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Jan 15, 2025
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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 ) (coreq: ME 317 )
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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