MECH 4404 - Heat Transfer

Prerequisite: MECH 3305 or consent of the instructor. Steady and unsteady conduction in one and two dimensions. Heat transfer in walls and cylinders; internal generation of heat. Fins and extended surfaces. Introduction to matrix inversion; finite difference solutions using matrix inversion and time-step iteration methods. Biot, Fourier, Prandtl, Nusselt, and other dimensionless numbers. Internal and external forced convection. Heat exchangers, log-mean temperature difference, effectiveness-NTU method. Radiation. Practical examples. 3 credits.