MAE 531 - Advanced Heat Transfer

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Open Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, and Mechanical Engineering MS students only.
Advanced topics in conduction and convection heat transfer, analytical and numerical solutions to multidimensional heat conduction equations in various geometries. Solutions to laminar and turbulent convective heat transfer problems. External and internal flows, free and forced convection, and mass transfer from external surfaces. Applications in thermal systems design.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours).