MAE 531 - Advanced Heat Transfer

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Open to Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, Mechanical Engineering MS, or Chemical 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).