Heat Transfer

Description

This course offers the fundamentals that allow the students to determine temperature distribution and heat flow. Multidimensional conduction in a steady and transient state is also. Heat Transfer by forced and natural convection in different flow regimes, whether internal or external, and various geometries, is studied. It begins with the study of energy transport, analyzing and calculating the heat flow and the temperature distribution in plates and tubes, and continues to complex geometric conditions (tubular finned heat exchangers). Phase change heat transfer is also studied. The foundations for the thermal analysis of heat exchangers are established, through the application of rationalization methods and optimization of their operation.

Learning Outcomes
The student must understand the importance of the transport phenomena, specially heat transfer, and must acquire the basic knowledge of conductive and convective heat transfer, and apply them into engineering problems. The student will learn:

• Apply the basic principles of energy transfer to solve heat transfer problems, either conductive or convective, in different systems and processes.
• State the energy balances adequately in order to solve them
• Apply different techniques in the calculation of heat transfer equipment or processes, either conduction or convection.

Topics

• Introduction to heat transfer
• One dimensional steady state heat conduction
• Convective-Conductive systems. Cooling Surfaces
• Multidimensional transient heat conduction
• Convection
• Phase Change