Internal and external convection, blackbody and graybody thermal radiation, numerical methods for heat transfer. Design and analysis of heat exchangers. Senior status required Welded connections, mechanical springs, rolling and journal bearings, spur, helical bevel and worm gears, clutches, brakes, and flexible mechanical elements safety, economic, reliability and design considerations. Experiments related to heat transfer in forced and natural convection. Computer data acquisition and data analysis.
Energy principles to obtain natural frequencies, viscous and coulomb damping effects.
Formulation of the problem of vibration of continuous bodies, non-periodic forcing effects. Design and analysis of residential, commercial, and industrial HVAC systems. Application of modern engineering tools in the design of mechanical and thermal systems. Measurements on elements experiencing combined stresses. Design of ducts and nozzles for compressible flow.