Heat Transfer

Course content

1-D steady heat conduction, thermal resistances, extended surfaces. 2-D steady heat conduction, shape factor, finite difference methods. Transient conduction, lumped capacitance method, 1-D transient conduction, product solutions. Boundary layers, laminar and turbulent flow, convective transfer boundary layer equations, dimensionless parameters, Reynolds analogy. External flow, empirical correlations. Internal flow correlations. Free convection.