Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• Provide an understanding of the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer processes in engineering systems.
• Provide methods for analysis and solution of problems involving heat and mass transfer using fundamental differential analysis.
• Guide the process of scaling analysis and finding solutions by analogy.

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Understand the principles of conduction, radiation and convection and apply them to the design and analysis of engineering systems and problems
• Understand the analogy between heat, mass and momentum transfer
• Understand the origin and use of non-dimensional groups and their analogues in heat, mass and momentum transfer
• Understand the principles of phase change
• Understand the process of mass diffusion in gases, liquids and solids
• Develop an intuition for scaling and magnitudes in heat transfer
• Develop an understanding of numerical and experimental methods for solving practical problems

Content

Multidimensional conduction (3L)

• Heat equation
• Multi-dimensional steady-state conduction in solids
• Transient conduction: Biot and Fourier numbers, lumped capacitance
• Numerical methods

Radiation heat transfer (3L)

• Spectral radiation
• Spectral absorptivity, emissivity, transmissivity
• Form factor calculations and approximations
• Numerical methods

Convective Heat Transfer (7L)

• Principles of convection
• Forced convection
• Free convection
• Heat exchangers
• Numerical methods and examples

Mass transfer (3L)

• Conservation laws and constitutive relations
• Diffusive and convective fluxes 
• Mass and heat transfer analogies