Students complete five problem sets, a heat transfer experiment including a lab report and two open-ended design problems. Kays and Crawford, Convective Heat and Mass Transfer , McGraw-Hill, 1980. Kays and London, Compact Heat Exchangers , National Press, 1955. This course presents the fundamental principles of heat transfer so students can solve heat transfer problems typically encountered by practicing engineers. Students apply these fundamentals in two design problems based upon real-world scenarios.
Students also reinforce their basic laboratory skills in a heat transfer experiment.
Boundary layer theory. Basic electric circuits. The conduction block covers one, two, and three dimensional steady and unsteady conduction heat transfer. In the convection block, students review boundary layer theory and learn to solve the energy and momentum equations. Students learn to correlate experimental data and use empirical equations to calculate convection heat transfer coefficients.