MAE 6510

Advanced Heat Transfer

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

An advanced treatment of conduction and convection from a theoretical perspective. Topics include: conservation of linear momentum in integral and differential forms; steady state and transient conduction; boundary layer flows with emphasis on laminar conditions; scale analysis; forced and natural convection; internal and external flows; fundamentals of radiative exchange between surfaces and relationship to problems of environmental importance (e.g., global climate change); numerical simulation to solve conduction and convection problems.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Open to: graduate students at all levels and senior-level undergraduates.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

• Students will be able to develop a capability to theoretically analyze problems in conduction, convection and radiation from a more advanced perspective than an undergraduate course.
• Students will be able to reduce a physical thermal problem to a set of differential equations based on the laws of thermodynamics: predict heat transfer rates for various conduction, convection and radiation configurations.
• Students will be able to become familiar with a commercial code (ANSYS-FLUENT) for solving problems in conduction and convection.
• Students will be able to use scale analysis to 'solve' complex problems in convection.

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