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Readings are from the required course text:
Incropera, Frank P., and David P. DeWitt. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. 5th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2001. ISBN: 9780471386506.
Course Readings.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction and Overview
Demonstration of Modes of Heat and Mass Transfer |
1.1-1.7 |
| 2 |
Conservation of Energy
Heat Diffusion Equation
Boundary and Initial Conditions |
2.1-2.5 |
| 3 |
Steady-state Conduction in Plane Wall and Radial Geometries |
3.1-3.4 |
| 4 |
Recitation 1 |
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| 5 |
Conduction with Energy Generation |
3.5 |
| 6 |
Extended Surfaces |
3.6, 3.7 |
| 7 |
Two-dimensional Conduction |
4.1-4.4, skim 4.5 |
| 8 |
Recitation 2 |
|
| 9 |
Transient Conduction
Lumped Capacitance Analysis |
5.1-5.3 |
| 10 |
Transient Conduction with Spatial Effects |
5.4-5.7 |
| 11 |
Recitation 3 |
|
| 12 |
Semi-infinite Solid |
|
| 13 |
Multi-dimensional Effects |
5.8 |
| 14 |
Introduction to Radiation |
12.1-12.5 |
| 15 |
Recitation 4 |
|
| 16 |
Radiation Processes |
12.6-12.9 |
| 17 |
Blackbody Exchange |
13.1-13.2 |
| 18 |
Recitation 5 |
|
|
Exam 1 |
|
| 19 |
Gray Surfaces |
13.3 |
| 20 |
Introduction to Convection
Boundary Layers |
6.1-6.5 |
| 21 |
Recitation 6 |
|
| 22 |
Boundary Layer Similarity
Dimensionless Equations |
6.6-6.10 |
| 23 |
External Flow Correlations |
7.1-7.5, 7.9 |
| 24 |
Internal Flow
Flow in Tubes |
8.1-8.4 |
| 25 |
Recitation 7 |
|
| 26 |
Convection Correlations |
8.5-8.10 |
| 27 |
Heat Exchangers (MTD) |
11.1-11.3 |
| 28 |
Heat Exchangers (NTU) |
11.4 |
| 29 |
Recitation 8 |
|
| 30 |
Heat Exchangers |
11.5 |
| 31 |
Heat Exchangers (cont.) |
|
| 32 |
Introduction to Mass Transfer |
14.1-14.2 |
| 33 |
Recitation 9 |
|
|
Exam 2 |
|
| 34 |
Conservation of Species |
14.3 |
| 35 |
Steady Diffusion |
14.4 |
| 36 |
Recitation 10 |
|
| 37 |
Diffusion with Homogeneous Reaction |
14.5 |
| 38 |
Diffusion with Heterogeneous Reaction |
14.6 |
| 39 |
Transient Diffusion |
|
| 40 |
Recitation 11 |
|
| 41 |
Convective Mass Transfer |
7.1-7.2 |
| 42 |
Mass Transfer Boundary Layers |
|
| 43 |
Recitation 12 |
|
|
Exam 3 |
|
| 44 |
Interphase Mass Transfer |
|
| 45 |
Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer |
|
| 46 |
Recitation 13 |
|
| 47 |
Course Evaluations |
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