ME 420
ME 420 - Intermediate Heat Transfer
Fall 2024
| Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate Heat Transfer | ME420 | A1 | 58135 | LCD | 4 | 1300 - 1350 | M W F | 1043 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Bumsoo Han Jiong Chen |
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Official Description
Detailed Course Description
Conduction heat transfer, radiation heat transfer, mass transfer, phase change, heat exchangers; numerical methods. Prerequisite: ME 310 and ME 320; or equivalents. 4 undergraduate hours or 4 graduate hours.
TOPICS:
1. Introduction
2. Steady heat conduction: extended surface problems (fins), special functions, multidimensional steady problems, separation of variables and orthogonal functions
3. Unsteady heat conduction: lumped parameter analysis with various boundaries, finite and semi-finite bodies
4. Numerical methods
5. Radiation properties of solids: property definitions, directional and spectral effects
6. Radiant surface exchange: shape factors, diffuse gray analysis, specular analysis
7. Radiant exchange in participating media
8. Mass transfer
9. Condensation and boiling
10. Heat exchangers
ME: MechSE or technical elective.
EM: Possible secondary field, with approval.