ME-701 · Heat and Mass Transfer/Official Syllabus
Heat and Mass Transfer (ME-701) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Basic Concepts
- Modes of heat transfer
- Fourier's law
- Newton's law
- Stefan Boltzman law
- thermal resistance and conductance
- analogy between flow of heat and electricity
- combined heat transfer process
- Fourier heat conduction equation
- its form in rectangular coordinates
- cylindrical coordinates
- spherical coordinates
- thermal diffusivity
- linear one dimensional steady state conduction through a slab
- tubes
- spherical shells and composite structures
- electrical analogies
- critical-insulation-thickness for pipes
- effect of variable thermal conductivity
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Unit 2
Extended Surfaces (fins)
- Heat transfer from a straight fin for a uniform cross section
- annular fin (plate) for a uniform cross section
- error in measurement of temperature in a thermometer well
- fin efficiency
- fin effectiveness
- applications
- Unsteady heat conduction: Transient and periodic conduction
- heating and cooling of bodies with known temperatures distribution
- systems with infinite thermal conductivity
- response of thermocouples
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Unit 3
Convection
- Introduction
- free and forced convection
- principle of dimensional analysis
- Buckingham 'pie' theorem
- application of dimensional analysis of free and forced convection
- empirical correlations for laminar and turbulent flow over flat plate and tubular geometry
- calculation of convective heat transfer coefficient using data book
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Unit 4
Heat Exchangers
- Types- parallel flow
- counter flow
- evaporator and condensers
- overall heat transfers coefficient
- fouling factors
- log-mean temperature difference (LMTD)
- method of heat exchanger analysis
- effectiveness of heat exchanger
- NTU method
- Mass transfer: Fick's law
- equi-molar diffusion
- diffusion coefficient
- analogy with heat transfer
- diffusion of vapour in a stationary medium
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Unit 5
Thermal Radiation
- Nature of radiation
- emissive power
- absorption
- transmission
- reflection and emission of radiation
- Planck's distribution law
- radiation from real surfaces
- radiation heat exchange between black and gray surfaces
- shape factor
- analogical electrical network
- radiation shields
- Film wise and drop wise condensation
- Nusselt theory for film wise condensation on a vertical plate and its modification for horizontal tubes
- boiling heat transfer phenomenon
- regimes of boiling
- boiling correlations
Laboratory Experiments
- Conduction through a rod to determine thermal conductivity of material
- Forced and free convection over circular cylinder
- Free convection from extended surfaces
- Parallel flow and counter flow heat exchanger effectiveness and heat transfer rate
- Calibration of thermocouple
- Experimental determination of Stefen-Boltzman constant
Reference Books
- Sukhatme SP; Heat and mass transfer; University Press Hyderabad
- Holman JP; Heat transfer; TMH
- Nag PK; heat and Mass Transfer; TMH
- Domkudwar, Heat and Mass Transfer, Dhanpt Rai & Co.
- Sachdeva R.C., Fundamentals of Engineering Heat and Mass Transfer, New Age Science
- Dutta BK; Heat Transfer Principles And App; PHI Learning
- Mills AF and Ganesan V; Heat transfer; Pearson
- Cengel Yunus A; Heat and Mass transfer; TMH
- Yadav R; Heat and Mass Transfer; Central India pub-Allahabad
- Incropera FP and Dewitt DP; Heat and Mass transfer; Wiley
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