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VM531 – Advanced Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer

Instructors:

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing

Description:

Heat and mass transfer by diffusion in one-dimensional, two-dimensional, transient, and phase change systems. Heat conduction in composite materials and porous media. Thermal transport properties and micro-nanoscale effects. Radiation exchange between surfaces and radiation transfer in participating media. Multimode heat transfer problems. Radiative transfer equation and phonon Boltzmann transport equations.

Course Topics:

Introduction to heat transfer
Conduction and rate equations
1D conduction
Extended surfaces
2D conduction
Transient conduction and semi-infinite domains
Numerical methods for heat diffusion equation
Conduction with phase change
Conduction in composite materials
Introduction to micro/nanoscale heat conduction
Brief review of convection concepts 1
Brief review of convection concepts 2
Radiation: basic concepts
Radiative properties of real surfaces
Radiation exchange between diffuse gray surfaces
Radiation exchange between partially specular gray surfaces
Participating media and radiative transfer equation
Exact solution of 1D gray media
Approximate solution of 1D media
Phonon transport and Boltzmann transport equation
Numerical solution of RTE/BTE