In this course, students will review the fundamental concepts of heat transfer and develop various skills needed to solve related problems. This includes analytical methods for solving energy equations, scaling laws, dimensional analysis, and numerical methods. Emphasis will be placed on conduction and convection among the three modes of heat transfer. Students will also conduct term projects to practice solving complex, practical heat transfer problems and to explore emerging topics in heat transfer research.

ME360 or instructor’s consent

• H. S. Carslaw and J.C. Jaeger, 1996, Conduction of Heat in Solids, Oxford
• A. Bejan, 2013, Convection Heat Transfer, Wiley
• W. M. Kays and M. E. Crawford, 1996, Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, McGraw-Hill

Week Content
1 Energy equation
2 Characteristics of diffusion heat transfer
3 Multidimensional conduction problems (separation of variables)
4 Transient heat conduction / steady-periodic problems
5 Scaling and dimensional analysis
6 Green’s function methods / Solution by integral transforms
7 Melting and solidification problem
8 Numerical methods for heat transfer
9 Introduction to convective heat transfer
10 Thermal boundary layer
11 Dimensional analysis and boundary-layer analogy
12 Wedge flow, stagnation flow, blowing, suction
13 Heat transfer in fully developed flow
14 Analysis of internal flow heat transfer
15 Natural convection analysis
16 Special topics in heat transfer

- Homework will be assigned approximately once every 2 weeks. Homework will not be graded, but a significant portion of the problems will appear on the midterm and final exams.
- Students are expected to attend all classes. Students should check in electronically using the attendance check system.