Course No.

Course Name L-T-P Credits Year of Introduction

Advanced Heat Transfer
01ME6203 3-1-0 4 2015

Course Objectives

This course assumes that the students have undergone UG courses in Engineering
Mathematics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics.
.
1. To impart the basic and an advanced level of understanding of the various modes of
heat transfer and different kinds of mechanisms that influence heat transfer.;
2. The purpose of this course is to develop correlations on the basis of
fundamental transport laws governing heat/mass transfer
3. The treatment is highly mathematical and, through assignments, students are
expected to formulate and solve problems to derive expressions for the heat/mass
transfer coefficient in different situations
4. Computer assisted data acquisition, data manipulation and presentation

Syllabus

Unsteady conduction, 2D steady conduction and phase change problems, Numerical

solution of conduction problems, Introduction to free and forced convection, Laminar flow
heat transfer, Turbulent flow heat transfer, Analogy methods, emperical correlation, Mixed
Convection, Introduction to radiation, View factors, Enclosure analysis, gas radiation, mass
transfer

Expected Outcome

1. The students will be able to analyses a real life situation involving heat transfer
and would be able to design a thermal system
2. They will be in a position to trouble shoot the problems in a thermal system and
able to suggest methods to improve the performance of the system..
3. The course will interest students wishing to embark on a research career in
heat/mass transfer

References

1. F.P. Incropera and D. Dewitt , Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th Edition
 by, John Wiley, 2011.

2 S.P. Venkateshan , Heat Transfer - 2 Ed, (Reprint) , Ane Books Pvt. Ltd. 2011

3 Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach, Mcgraw-Hill, 2002

4 D. Poulikakos, Conduction Heat Transfer, Prentice Hall, 1994.

5 S. Kakac and Y. Yener, Heat Conduction, Taylor and Francis, 1994
6 G.E.Myers ,Analytical methods in Conduction Heat Transfer, McGraw Hill, 1971.
7 W. Kays, M. Crawford and B. Weigand , Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, 4th
Edition by, McGraw Hill International, 2005.
8 Convective Heat Transfer, 2nd Edition by S. Kakac and Y. Yener, CRC Press, 1995.
9 Convection Heat Transfer, 3rd Edition by A. Bejan, John Wiley, 2004
10 Louis C. Burmeister Convective Heat Transfer, John Wiley and sons September 10,
1993
11 R. Siegel and J.R.Howell , Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, Taylor & Francis, 2002.
12 E.M.Sparrow and R.D.Cess Radiation Heat Transfer, , Wadsworth, 1966.
13 C.Hottel and A.F.Saroffim, Radiative Transfer, , McGraw hill, 1967.

14 Radiative Heat Transfer, M.F.Modest, McGraw Hill, 2003.

COURSE PLAN

% of Marks inEnd-SemesterExamination
Module

Contents Allotted
Hours

Concept of Biot number – Lumped capacitance formulation – simple

problems – unsteady conduction from a semi-infinite solid- solution by 4
similarity transformation method.
I 15
Solution of the general 1D unsteady problem by separation of
variables and charts- example problems Laplace equation –
5
solution by variable separable method – concept of superposition
and homogeneous boundary conditions.
Phase change problems – The Stefan and Neumann problems –
analytical solutions. Basic ideas of finite difference method – forward,
II backward and central differences – Discretization for the unsteady heat 8 15
equation – simple problems.
 FIRST INTERNAL EXAM
Forced and free convection – velocity and thermal boundary layer,
laminar and turbulent flows – General equation for momentum and
5
energy transport.
III 15
Laminar flow heat transfer: Exact solutions of the 2D boundary
layer momentum and energy equations. Approximate calculations 5
of the boundary layer by the momentum and energy integral
Turbulent flow heat transfer: Time averaged equations of continuity,
momentum and energy. Analog methods – Reynolds, Prandtl and Von
Karman. Free convection: Solutions of the boundary layer equations for 5
a vertical plate
IV 15
Free convection with a turbulent boundary layer – Emperical
correlation for free convection from vertical, horizontal inclined
surfaces and enclosures 5

Mixed Convection – Introduction to mixed convection-concepts

SECOND INTERNAL EXAM
Introduction to radiation, need for view factors, concept of view
factors, mathematical definition. View factor Algebra, Hottel's
crossed string method, view factors for 2D surfaces using algebra.
View factors from 2D surfaces using charts. Radiosity Irradiation 7
V method for gray diffuse enclosures – Problems for 2 and 3 surface 20
enclosures – parallel plate formula, radiation shields, concept of
re-radiating surface.
Introduction to gas radiation – The equation of transfer – derivation
3
Simple solutions to the equation of transfer.
Mass Transfer: Modes of mass transfer-convective and diffusive
4
VI mass transfer. 20
Ficks law, analog between heat, mass and momentum transfer-
5
dimensionless numbers
END SEMESTER EXAM