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ME-814 Advanced Heat Transfer - Convection
Campus PNEC
Programs PG
Session Spring Semester 2017
Course Title Advanced Heat Transfer - Convection
Course Code ME-814
Credit Hours 3-0
Pre-Requisutes Basic Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics
Course Objectives
  • To provide students with insight into the nature of convection problems:
    • Physically and mathematically
    • Ability to understand and explain convection phenomena
  • To help students develop the ability to calculate convection solutions:
    • Simple to complex techniques
    • Analytical and numerical techniques
  • To provide students with the background necessary to understand the literature and to contribute to it.
Detail Content
  • Introduction
  • Exact 1-D Solutions
  • External Laminar Forced Convection
  • Internal Laminar Flows
  • Turbulent Internal Flows
  • Turbulent External Flows
  • Natural Convection
  • Combined Convection
  • Convective Heat Transfer Through Porous Media
Text/Ref Books
  • An Introduction to Convective Heat Transfer Analysis by Patrick H. Oosthuizen
  • Convection Heat Transfer by Kays and Crawford
  • Free-Convective Heat Transfer by Oleg G. Martynenko Pavel P. Khramtsov
  • Convective Heat Transfer by Ioan I. Pop, Derek B. Ingham
  • Free Convection Film Flows and Heat Transfer by Deyi Shang
Time Schedule Spring Semester 2011
Faculty/Resource Person Dr. Waqar Ahmed Khan
PhD (University of Waterloo), Canada
Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Specialization: Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer