Heat Transfer
Course Outline
Section 1002 –1:00-1:50 PM
Handouts
Historical and Introductory Concepts
Particular engineering interests
Ideal problem solving strategies
Course notebook
Course logbook
Related video titles
Expanding websites
Flow visualization techniques
Famous Contributors
Leonhard Euler
(1707–1783)
(
see also
)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
(1768-1830)
Jean Baptiste Biot
(1774-1862)
Isaac Newton
(1792-1827)
(
see also1
)
Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
(1793-1857)
Gustav Kirchoff
(1824-1887)
William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin
(1824-1907)
Franz Grashof
(1826-1893)
Joseph Stefan
(1835-1893)
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
(1842-1919)
Ludwig Boltzmann
(1844-1906)
Leo Graetz
(1856-1941)
Max Planck
(1858-1947)
Wilhem Wien
(1864-1928)
Ludwig Prandtl
(1875-1953)
Max Jakob
(1879-1955)
(see also
Max Jakob Memorial Award
)
Marcello Pirani
(1880-1968)
Wilhelm Nusselt
(1882-1957)
(
see also1
)
Blaise Pascal
and
René Descartes
Ernst R. G. Eckert
(1904-2004)
Other contributors
ICHMT Origins of dimensionless groups of heat and mass transfer
Useful Definitions
Basic terms
Heat equation
Heat transfer
Thermal radiation
Newton's law of cooling
Convection
Thermal conductivity
Thermal diffusivity
Heat transfer coefficient
Heat capacity
Specific heat capacity
Boundary layers
Emissivity
Black body
Biot number
Fourier series
P
é
clet number
Kirchoff's law of thermal radiation
Kelvin unit
Grashof number
Stefan-Boltzmann law
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Rayleigh number
Graetz number
Planck's constant
Planck's law of black body radiation
Wien's displacement law
Prandtl number
Boundary layer
Nusselt number
Eckert number
Computer Programs
BIOT number calculation for plane, cylinder and sphere
Some References
A Heat Transfer Textbook --Lienhard 2003
Heat and Mass Transfer Excerpt from the Mechanical Engineering Handbook 1999
Assignments
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1.
Introduction –Chapter 1
2
.
Conduction Equation –Chapter 2
3
.
Steady Conduction –Chapter 3
4
.
Transient Conduction –Chapter 4
5
.
Numerical Methods –Chapter 5
6
.
Forced Convection –Chapter 6
7
.
Natural Convection –Chapter 7
8
.
Heat Exchangers –Chapter 10
Thermal Design Project