3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
Heat and mass transfer by diffusion in one-dimensional, two-dimensional, transient, periodic, and phase change systems. Convective heat transfer for external and internal flows. Similarity and integral solution methods. Heat, mass, and momentum analogies. Turbulence. Buoyancy-driven flows. Convection with phase change. Radiation exchange between surfaces and radiation transfer in absorbing-emitting media. Multimode heat transfer problems.
Learning Outcomes1Analyze and solve variable cross-section fin problems.
2Apply separation of variables to steady-state and transient heat conduction problems in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinate systems.
3Apply separation of variables to steady-state conduction with heat generation.
4Analyze and solve boundary layer problems.
5Solve internal and external flow, forced convection problems.
6Solve external flow natural convection problems.
7Identify different regimes of boiling and condensation.
8Recognize, model, and solve radiation heat transfer problems.
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