ENR 301 - Heat Transfer

Course Objectives

1. To build a foundation of analytical capability for the solution of a great variety of heat transfer problems.
2. To introduce how to construct and solve mathematical models which describes the effects of heat transfer on a variety of heat exchange equipments and structures that are of concern to engineers.
3. To introduce heat transfer principles to understand the behavior of thermal systems.

Course Description

Introduction and basic concepts, basic laws of heat transfer, heat conduction equation, steady heat conduction, heat generation, extended surfaces, transient and multidimensional heat conduction, fundamentals of convection, boundary layer theory, external forced convection, internal forced convection, natural convection, radiation heat transfer.