Fundamentals of Heat Transfer Part 1: Conduction

Fundamentals of Heat Transfer Part 1: Conduction

Conduction, Convection, Radiation, Heat Diffusion Eq., Thermal Resistance, Finned Surface, Lumped Capacitance

What you’ll learn

  • Perform general energy balances as well as surface energy balances
  • Understand the basic mechanisms of heat transfer, which are conduction, convection, and radiation, and Fourier’s law of heat conduction, Newton’s law of cooling, and the Stefan– Boltzmann law of radiation
  • Obtain the differential equation of heat conduction in various coordinate systems, and simplify it for steady one-dimensional case
  • Identify the thermal conditions on surfaces, and express them mathematically as boundary and initial conditions
  • Solve one-dimensional heat conduction problems and obtain the temperature distributions within a medium and the heat flux
  • Understand the concept of thermal resistance and its limitations, and develop thermal resistance networks for practical heat conduction problems
  • Solve steady conduction problems that involve multilayer rectangular, cylindrical, or spherical geometries
  • Develop an intuitive understanding of thermal contact resistance, and circumstances under which it may be significant
  • Identify applications in which insulation may actually increase heat transfer
  • Analyze finned surfaces, and assess how efficiently and effectively fins enhance heat transfer
  • Assess when the spatial variation of temperature is negligible, and temperature varies nearly uniformly with time, making the simplified lumped system analysis applicable

Requirements

  • Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics course.
  • Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics course.

Who this course is for:

  • Engineering Students
  • Engineers curious about heat transfer
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