Heat Transfer

Study Guide

This book has been developed for use in either a graduate or undergraduate level course in heat transfer. A sample program of study is laid out below for a one-semester graduate course (consisting of 45 class sessions).

Graduate heat transfer class

Day

Sections in Book

Topic

1

1.1

Conduction heat transfer

2

1.2

1-D steady conduction and resistance concepts

3

2.8

Resistance approximations

4

1.3

1-D steady conduction with generation

5

1.4, 1.5

Numerical solutions with EES and MATLAB

6

1.6

Fin solution, fin efficiency, and finned surfaces

7

1.7

Other constant cross-section extended surface problems

8

1.8

Bessel function solutions

9

2.2

2-D conduction, separation of variables

10

2.2

2-D conduction, separation of variables

11

2.4

Superposition

12

3.1

Transient, lumped capacitance problems analytical solutions

13

3.2

Transient, lumped capacitance problems numerical solutions

14

3.3

Semi-infinite bodies, diffusive time constant

15

3.3

Semi-infinite bodies, self-similar solution

16

3.4

Laplace transform solutions to lumped capacitance problems

17

3.4

Laplace transform solutions to 1-D transient problems

18

3.5

Separation of variables for 1-D transient problems

19

3.8

Numerical solutions to 1-D transient problems

20

4.1

Laminar boundary layer concepts

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