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MECH 650. Fundamentals of Heat Transfer.

Credits: 4
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Heat conduction: analytical solutions; integral solutions; solid-liquid phase-change. Forced and natural convection: nondimensionalization; boundary layer theory; design correlations for external and internal flows; basic ideas of turbulence modelling. Mixed convection. Boiling and condensation. Radiation heat transfer: basic concepts; black-body enclosure theory; gray-body enclosure theory; participating media.
  • Evening course

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