PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Description

Heat transfer is the flow of thermal energy driven by thermal non-equilibrium (i.e. the effect of a non-uniform temperature field), commonly measured as a heat flux (vector), i.e. the heat flow per unit time (and usually unit normal area) at a control surface.

            This course is an introduction to the principal concepts and methods of heat transfer. The objectives of this integrated subject are to develop the fundamental principles and laws of heat transfer and to explore the implications of these principles for system behaviour; to formulate the models necessary to study, analyse and design heat transfer systems through the application of these principles; to develop the problem-solving skills essential to good engineering practice of heat transfer in real-world applications.

What will you learn?

On completion of this course you will be able to:

Apply principles of heat and mass transfer to basic engineering systems

Analyse heat transfer by conduction, convection;

Analyse and design heat exchangers;

Analyse diffusional processes and calculate the flux in a diffusion process.

Prerequisites

Basic Knowledge in mathematics, Differential Equations, Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.