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This undergraduate course provides an introductory treatment of steady and transient conduction, natural and forced convection and radiation heat transfer with applications to basic heat exchanger design and other multimode problems. Students may be required to complete at least one design project, and laboratory work may be required.

Prerequisites for this class include ES-330 (Fluid Mechanics), ES-340 (Thermodynamics), and MA-232 (Differential Equations).

Course Objectives

• To introduce steady and transient conduction, natural and forced convection and radiation heat transfer with applications to basic heat exchanger design and other multimode problems.
• Students will work through textbook problem and lecture material to establish the relationship between these principals and practical applications.

Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate the ability to...

• Students recognize relevant modes of heat transfer and apply this information to analyze practical problems.
• Students can apply conservation laws to appropriate control volumes and solve heat transfer problems outlined in Topics.

Required Text

• Incropera, F.P. and DeWitt, D.P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2002.

Course Schedule (timeline is approximate)

Topics	Reading	Homework Problems
Ch. 1: Introduction	1.1-1.7	2,13,21,40
Ch. 2: Introduction to Conduction	2.1-2.3	1,5,7,17,24,30,33,47
Ch. 3: 1D Steady-State Cond.	3.1,3.3-3.6.3,3.6.5-3.7	4,6,7,27,38,41,58,73,79,84,101,111,116,127
Ch. 5: Transient Conduction	5.1-5.7	9,16,40,53,58,71,88
Ch. 6: Introduction to Convection	6.1-6.10	4,40
Ch. 7: External Flow	7.1-7.5	18,21,33,45,62,65,78
Ch. 8: Internal Flow	8.1-8.7	3,4,11,12,26,32,70,77,79,82,97
Ch. 9: Free Convection	9.1-9.8	3,6,14,26,52,56,62,85,94,109
Ch. 12: Radiation: Processes & Properties	12.1-12.7	2,9,10,16,20,32,35,37,44,50,53
Ch. 13: Radiation Exchange Bet. Surfaces	13.1-13.3	1,10,18,34,43,62,69,77,78

Policies and Grading

• Attendance is required.
• Suggested homework problems will be assigned but not collected.
• Short quizzes (weekly) will be given. These will be announced ahead of time and will reflect the lecture material and homework problems.
• The percentage of any examination (other than the final exam) missed by a student will be added to his/her final exam grade (instructor approved absences only, the reason for which must be verified by the Vice President for Student Affairs).
• All students must take the final exam during the scheduled period to pass the course.
• Requests for re-grading of problems on exams, quizzes, or other assignments must be made in writing to receive consideration. Your request must include the date, the problem number (if any), the exam, quiz, or assignment number or name, and should state the reason for the request for re-grade and must be signed by the student.
• Ungraded homework solutions will be placed on reserve at the course website. You should make a serious attempt at solving the problems before looking at the solutions.
• Exam solutions will be made available after the exams have been returned. Exams from previous semesters will also be available at the website.
• Reading assignments (typically announced in class) can be used as the basis for exam questions.
• Grading will be A, B+, B, C+, C, D+, D, F. These letter grades will be assigned after computing the course average using the percentages given below.
• Question and Answer sessions may be scheduled periodically (e.g., before each exam). Quiz dates, as well as any exam rescheduling will be announced in class. It is your responsibility to stay abreast of these developments.

Grading Scheme and Important Dates

• Tuesday, July 05: Quiz 1 - 20%
• Monday, July 11: Quiz 2 - 20%
• Monday, July 18: Quiz 3 - 20%
• Monday, July 25: Quiz 4 - 20%
• Saturday, July 30: Final Exam - 20%
  

Homework problems will be provided regularly, with some additional problem to be included as the material is covered. Answers to selected problems are listed in the back of the textbook, and complete solutions to all homework problems will be posted in the library and on the course website after the requisite material is covered.

Kambiz Nazridoust, 2005.