Fundamentals of 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
• Péclet 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
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• 2.  Conduction Equation –Chapter 2
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• 3.  Steady Conduction –Chapter 3
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• 4.  Transient Conduction –Chapter 4
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• 5.  Numerical Methods –Chapter 5
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• 6.  Forced Convection –Chapter 6
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• 7.  Natural Convection –Chapter 7
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• 8.  Heat Exchangers –Chapter 10
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