MEC010 – Heat Transfer
Syllabus – 2021/4 Academic Calendar.
Lecture 01 – Introduction to heat transfer, formal presentation of the discipline.
Lecture 02 – Physical origins and rate equations, relationship to thermodynamics.
Lecture 03 – Conduction, convection, radiation.
Lecture 04 – Introduction to conduction, the conduction rate equation, the thermal properties of matter, the heat diffusion equation.
Lecture 05 – One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, the plane wall, the composite wall, contact resistance.
Lecture 06 – One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, no internal generation of thermal energy, radial systems.
Lecture 07 – One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, with internal generation of thermal energy, the plane wall.
Lecture 08 – One-dimensional, steady-state conduction, with internal generation of thermal energy, radial systems.
Lecture 09 – Heat transfer from extended surfaces.
Lecture 10 – Heat Transfer test 01.
Lecture 11 – Two-dimensional, steady-state conduction, the conduction shape factor.
Lecture 12 – Two-dimensional, steady-state conduction, finite-difference equations.
Lecture 13 – Transient conduction.
Lecture 14 – Introduction to convection, the convection boundary layers.
Lecture 15 – Introduction to convection, boundary layer similarity, physical interpretation of the dimensionless parameters.
Lecture 16 – External flow, the empirical method, the flat plate in parallel flow, boundary layer conditions.
Lecture 17 – External flow, the cylinder in cross flow, the sphere.
Lecture 18 – External flow, flow across banks of tubes.
Lecture 19 – Heat transfer test 02.
Lecture 20 – Internal flow, hydrodynamic considerations, thermal considerations, the energy balance.
Lecture 21 – Internal flow, laminar flow in circular tubes, turbulent flow in circular tubes, noncircular tubes and the concentric tube annulus.
Lecture 22 – Free convection, physical considerations, the governing equations, similarity considerations, laminar free convection on a vertical
surface, the effects of turbulence, empirical correlations.
Lecture 23 – Free convection, empirical correlations, external free convection flows, free convection within parallel plate channels, enclosures,
combined free and forced convection.
Lecture 24 – Heat exchangers, heat exchanger types, the overall heat transfer coefficient.
Lecture 25 – Heat exchangers, use of the log mean temperature difference, the effectiveness–NTU method.
Lecture 26 – Radiation, fundamental concepts, radiation heat fluxes, radiation intensity.
Lecture 27 – Radiation intensity.
Lecture 28 – Heat Transfer test 03.
Project – Sizing of different heat transfer components of HRSG.