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VM532 – Advanced Convection

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Credits: 3 credits

Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing

Description:

This course includes advanced coverage of convective heat transfer. The aim of the course is to introduce the fundamental convection theory and to provide an understanding of analytical methods and numerical tools used in solving realistic engineering problems in heat transfer. The topics include heat transfer in channel and external flow, laminar and turbulent convection, nature convection, convection in high speed flow (including compressible flow theory), fluids-thermal interactions and conjugate heat transfer analysis, unsteady heat transfer, etc. Engineering examples in electronic cooling and gas turbine applications will be demonstrated and discussed in detail. In-depth physical understanding on these topics will be obtained through a series of course works and projects using Matlab, a classical boundary layer code (TEXSTAN), and commercial CFD solvers.

Course Topics:

Course introduction; Governing equations, Control volume analysis, Transport, fluxes and surface forces, Physical meaning of the velocity gradient terms, etc.
Differential equations – laminar integral equations
Momentum transfer: laminar flow inside tubes
Heat Transfer: laminar flow inside tubes
Momentum transfer: laminar external boundary layer
Heat transfer: laminar external boundary layer
Transition; Momentum transfer: turbulent external boundary layer
Heat transfer: turbulent external boundary layer
Momentum transfer: turbulent flow inside tube
Heat transfer: turbulent flow inside tube
Free convection boundary layers
Influences of temperature-dependent fluid properties
Compressible flow theory
Convection at high speed
Conjugate heat transfer
Unsteady heat transfer
Electronic cooling
Convective heat transfer in turbomachines