MAK302

Heat Transfer

Faculty \ Department
School of Engineering \ Mechanical Engineering
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
3
6
Compulsory
English
Prerequisites
MAK201
Programs that can take the course
Mechanical Engineering
Course Description
Heat transfer mechanisms, one-dimensional heat conduction in steady regime, thermal resistance, analytical and numerical analysis of two-dimensional heat conduction systems in steady regime, heat conduction in unsteady regime, heat transfer by forced and natural convection, heat transfer by radiation.
Textbook and / or References
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer", F.P. Incropera, D.P. DeWitt, 6th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Course Objectives
Learning and application of the basic principles of heat transfer
Course Outcomes
1. Solve steady one-dimensional heat transfer problems analytically.
2. Formulate and solve the differential equation of heat conduction in various coordinates systems with proper thermal boundary conditions.
3. Understand and analyze the transient lumped-parameter heat conduction problems.
4. Demonstrate the ability to analyze convective heat transfer in boundary layer and internal pipe flows based on Newton’s law of cooling.
5. Solve radiative heat transfer between nonblack surfaces.
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1: BASICS OF HEAT TRANSFER: Heat transfer mechanisms, heat conduction, heat conduction coefficient, heat transfer by transport and radiation.
Week 2: HEAT TRANSMISSION: General heat conduction equation, the first condition and boundary conditions, continuous one-dimensional heat conduction.
Week 3: CONTINUOUS CONDITIONS HEAT TRANSMISSION: Heat conduction in plane walls under continuous conditions, thermal contact resistance, generalized thermal resistance circuits, heat conduction in cylinder and sphere.
Week 4: CONTINUOUS CONDITIONS HEAT TRANSMISSION: Critical insulation thickness, heat transfer through surfaces with wings, wing equation.
Week 5: Heat conduction under discontinuous conditions: Approach to the total mass, heat conduction in the transition conditions in the wide plane walls, long cylinders and spheres, heat conduction in semi-infinite solids.
Week 6: Numerical Methods in Heat Conduction under Continuous Conditions: Formulation of one- and two-dimensional heat conduction under continuous conditions with the help of finite differences.
Week 7: Numerical methods in heat conduction under discontinuous conditions: One and two dimensional heat conduction under transition conditions.
Week 8: FORCED TRANSPORT: The physical mechanism of heat transfer by transport, classification of flow in transport, velocity boundary layer, thermal boundary layer, laminar and turbulent flows, obtaining the basic equations.
Week 9: FORCED TRANSPORT ON EXTERNAL SURFACES: Drag force and heat transfer in external flow, parallel flow on flat plates, flow across cylinders and spheres.
Week 10: FORCED TRANSPORT ON INTERNAL SURFACES: Average velocity, average temperature, inlet region, constant surface heat flux and surface temperature boundary conditions, laminar flow in pipes, turbulent flow in pipes.
Week 11: HEAT RADIATION: Radiation intensity, black body radiation, radiation surface parameters, Kirchhoff's law, shape factors.
Week 12: HEAT TRANSFER BY RADIATION: Radiative heat transfer between black bodies, radiative heat transfer between gray bodies, radiation shields, radiative heat transfer in emitting and absorbing gases.
Tentative Assesment Methods
Midterm Exams 30%
Quiz 30%
Final 40%
Program Outcome **
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Course Outcome
1 B C
2 B C
3 B C
4 B C
5 B C