MECH&AE 231A

Main Course

Convective Heat Transfer Theory

Description

Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: courses 131A, 182B. Recommended: course 250A. Conservation equations for flow of real fluids. Analysis of heat transfer in laminar and turbulent, incompressible and compressible flows. Internal and external flows; free convection. Variable wall temperature; effects of variable fluid properties. Analogies among convective transfer processes. Letter grading.

Prerequisites

• Required: MECH&AE 131A

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• Required: MECH&AE 182B

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