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ME312 THERMAL ENGINEERING

Course Objectives

At the end of this course the students will

• Solve convection heat transfer problems with phase change,
• Perform thermal design and performance analysis of common types of heat exchangers,
• Understand the physical nature of thermal radiation and its interaction with matter,
• Be able to calculate radiation exchange between two or more surfaces,
• Identify, formulate and solve problems involving mass transfer through analogy to corresponding modes of heat transfer,
• Gain further hands-on experience in heat transfer experimentation through a number of laboratory tests.

Course Content

Boiling correlations, laminar and turbulent film condensation. Heat exchangers, LMTD and e-NTU methods. Physics of radiation, Kirchhoff`s law, spectral radiative properties. Solar radiation. View factors, blackbody radiation exchange, radiation circuits. Diffusion mass transfer, mass diffusion without chemical reaction, convective heat-mass transfer analogy.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Solutions of boundary layer equations for laminar internal forced convection flows and using the results in heat transfer problems.

2. Solutions of boundary layer equations for laminar external free convection flows and using the results in heat transfer problems.

3. Ability to choose appropriate empirical correlations for laminar and turbulent free convection problems and to use them in heat transfer problems.

4. Ability to identify pool boiling regimes and to use correlations for nucleate and film pool boiling problems.

5. Ability to analyze laminar film condensation over a vertical plate and to use the results in problems.

6. Ability to choose an empirical correlation for film condensation and to use it in problems involving different geometries.

7. Knowledge of different types of heat exchangers in use.

8. Ability to calculate overall heat transfer coefficient, considering related thermal resistances.

9. Ability to make basic heat exchanger design analysis using LMTD method.

10. Ability to make basic heat exchanger performance analysis using ε-NTU method.

11. Knowledge of fundamental concepts of thermal radiation, with emphasis on its spectral behavior.

12. Ability to use blackbody radiation characteristics to represent an ideal surface.

13. Ability to use surface emission, absorption, reflection and transmission properties.

14. Ability to calculate view factors and to use relations between view factors.

15. Ability to calculate blackbody radiation exchange.

16. Ability to calculate radiation exchange between diffuse, gray surfaces in an enclosure.

17. Knowledge of diffusion coefficient and convective mass transfer coefficient concepts.

18. Ability to use diffusion and convection mass flux expressions in problems.

19. Ability to apply analogy between heat and mass transfer.

20. Ability to analyze mass transfer occurring at the water and atmospheric air interface.

21. Familiarity with temperature measuring and other instruments and to use them in experiments.

22. Ability to conduct the practical application of concepts and phenomena in the lectures.

23. Ability to present test results in a written report.

Program Outcomes Matrix