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ES 183 Syllabus Jan 2017
ES 183 Syllabus Jan 2017
Course description:
The macroscopic description of the fundamentals of heat transfer and their
application to practical problems in energy conversion, electronics and living systems
with an emphasis on developing a physical and analytical understanding of conductive,
convective and radiative heat transfer. Emphasis will be given to problem solving skills
based on applying governing principles, mathematical models and physical intuition.
Topics included in the course will be: steady state heat conduction in 1,
2 and 3D; transient heat conduction in 1D and 3D; introduction to convective heat
transfer, forced convection as well as free convection; heat exchange analysis and design;
elements of radiative heat transfer. There will be an emphasis on mathematical
description of heat transfer and methods of solution, as well as using commercially
available computer software, such as COMSOL.
The course will consist of four components: (i) classroom lectures (ii) problem
sets and (iii) semester-long, multi-disciplinary team projects.
The collaborative team projects are an essential and integral part of the course.
They are paper design projects that utilize knowledge of the underlying heat transfer
principles gained from the classes, the textbook and problem sets to tackle contemporary
problems in which heat transfer plays a major role.
Prerequisites
Physics 11a or Physics 15a
Applied Mathematics 21a or Mathematics 21a (previously)
Applied Mathematics 21b or Mathematics 21b (previously or concurrently)
Prerequisites by topic
Calculus
Elementary differential equations
Elementary linear algebra (co-requirement)
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Desired but not essential: Familiarity with one of the common computational software
packages, eg MATHLAB or COMSOL. Introduction to COMSOL will be given in one
of the early classes and both the software packages are freely available to all registered
students.
Course website: Information about the course, details of the teaching staff and
organizational details as well as problem and solution sets will be posted on the course
web site at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/22943
Textbook: Although complemented by other materials, the class content will closely
follow the content of the textbook:
Fundamentals of Heat Transfer, by T.L. Bergman, A. S. Lavine, F. P. Incropera and
D. P. Dewitt. Wiley. See announcement page on class web site (above)
Other useful texts are:
Principles of Heat Transfer (eighth edition) by F. Kreith and R. M. Manglik,
Cengage Brain. ISBN13: 978-1-305-38710-2.
Heat and Mass Transfer (second edition) by K. C. Rolle, Cengage Learning
A Heat Transfer Textbook (4th edition) by J.H. Lienhard IV and J.H. Lienhard V is
available free of charge at http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html.
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Teaching Fellows:
Lectures
TBD
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final grades associated with the problem sets is not due to their lack of importance but
rather as an encouragement to learn the subject from each other by working together. It
is very likely that the better you learn from doing the problem sets, the better you will do
in the formal exams and in the team projects.
Guidelines for submission:
1. Hand in your work on white, lined or gridded 8.5" x 11" sheets. Typed solutions
are highly encouraged.
2. In the top left corner, put your name, the problem set number, the due date, and
the course name.
3. Put your answers in numerical order as assigned.
4. Problem sets will be graded both for correctness and for clarity: the graders are
not required to guess the intended meaning of poorly written answers.
5. Your work should be neat and orderly; make large, clear and clearly labeled
diagrams.
6. Formulae and numbers alone aren't sufficient; a written explanation should
accompany each solution describing the reasoning you used in answering the
questions. You will lose marks if you do not include this explanation.
Collaborating on problem sets:
1. Collaboration in planning and thinking through homework problems is permitted
but you should prepare your own solutions. You are allowed and encouraged to
work with other students currently taking ES183 in discussing, brainstorming, and
walking through solutions to homework problems, but when you are through
interacting, you should write up your solutions independently.
2. If you have collaborated with students in the course in the planning and design of
solutions to homework problems, list the names of your collaborators at the end of
your paper.
3. Under no circumstances may you use solutions sets to problems that are available
on any web site or other electronic medium.
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