Convective Heat Transfer Theory

MAE 231A Convective Heat Transfer Theory (Instructor: Fisher, T.) 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.

Short