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HEAT TRANSFER COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
UCK343 HEAT TRANSFER 5 3 3 5

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: 1.Being able to explain the basic physical laws of heat transfer, determine the types of heat transfer for given situations and make appropriate approaches. 2.Developing the ability to solve heat transfer problems analytically and numerically.
Content: History of heat transfer. Introduction to heat transfer. Conservation of energy. Heat conduction equation. Steady-state heat conduction. Unsteady heat conduction. Critical radius in insulation. Numerical methods in heat transfer; fundamentals of convection. Concepts of velocity and thermal boundary layers. Forced convection for internal and external flow. Heat pipes and heat exchangers. Fundamentals of radiative radiation. Black-body radiation and gray surfaces. Stefan-Boltzmann law. Electrical analogy in radiation. Shape factor in radiation. Cross-array method. Radiative heat transfer between gray surfaces.