Last Updated: 8/25/00
MAE 611 Heat Transfer
Fall 2000
 R.J.Ribando
310 MEC
Phone: (804) 924-6289
Fax: (804) 982-2037
rjr@virginia.edu
Office Hours - TBA
Schedule No. = 61533

IMPORTANT NOTICE
    This course will be taught using videotapes made when it was taught on television last fall through the Virginia Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program. A one-hour session will be scheduled each week with the instructor for live interaction, questions, formulation of projects and homework, etc.
 
Catalog Description
    Analysis of multi-dimensional heat conduction under steady and transient conditions; heat, mass, and momentum transfer associated with laminar and turbulent fluid flow in free and forced convection; heat transfer during phase changes; radiation heat transfer analysis including considerations of gray, diffuse, and specular surfaces; Gas radiation; and applications of theory to mechanical, chemical, and nuclear systems.
 
Course Purpose
    The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a basic understanding of engineering heat transfer. Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be capable of performing analysis and design calculations for a large variety of industrial situations. While we cover the three modes as in an undergraduate survey course, one may expect to find more emphasis on analysis and understanding. To aid in this endeavor, modern computational modeling and visualization techniques are employed, allowing the student to probe and understand the underlying physics.
 
Text
    Heat Transfer, Adrian Bejan, Wiley, 1993. ISBN 0-471-50290-1. There is a more expensive version of this book that includes software. Do NOT buy that.
   A manual of projects written by the instructor will be distributed. Locally-developed software documented in that manual is available on the servers. The Bejan book emphasizes "scale analysis," that is, using simple "back-of-the-envelope" calculations where feasible, and thus is a good counterpoint to the computational procedures implemented on the CD.

Meeting Times
    Classes are nominally scheduled from 1400 - 1515 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in MEC 345. Depending on the enrollment it may be possible to let students borrow the two tapes they will be watching each week and view them at their own convenience. An additional live discussion hour will be scheduled at a time TBA.

Quizzes
    As noted below, most of the course grade will be based on the assignments/projects. A take-home final quiz will be given.

Homeworks
    Homework assignments will be assigned at a rate of about one ever other week during the semester. Usually about one week will be given for the completion of the problem set after we have covered the material in class. The problems to be done and due dates will be posted on the course website and you are responsible for checking that regularly. Assignments will consist of a mix of end-of-chapter type problems, some use of the modules contained on the CD-Rom, and a few "light-duty" programming assignments.

Course Materials
    We will need to distribute other printed materials besides those contained in the course manual. These will include some other assignments, many PowerPoint slides from class, etc. These will be available in "PDF" format in the materials section of the course website. If you do not already have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer, you will need to download it so that you will be able to view and print out these materials.

Prerequisites
    Undergraduate fluid mechanics is a prerequisite to this course. We also will assume you are reasonably competent with spreadsheets. Several of the "canned" heat transfer modules provided on the CD-Rom you will receive will output data to a text file. That file may be readily imported into a spreadsheet for further processing. Other assignments involving computation may be implemented readily on a spreadsheet, perhaps with inclusion of a macro or two. The course manual includes an appendix covering Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the macro programming language contained within Excel, and you will probably find it useful well beyond this course.

Impairments
    Any student who feels that he or she needs an accomodation because of an impairment should see me during office hours.

Grading
   Grades will be determined from the following:

Homeworks 60
Special Reports 20
Final Exam 20

Weekly Schedule
  
Week Date Class  Assignments  
1  Aug. 31  Ch. 1 - Introduction
2 Sept. 5 Ch. 1  Student Profile 
Sept. 7 Ch. 2 - Unidirectional Steady Cond.  
3 Sept. 12 Ch. 2 
Sept. 14 Ch. 3 - Multidirectional Steady Cond. 
4 Sept. 19 Ch. 3
Sept. 21 Ch. 4 - Time-Dependent Conduction Problem Set #1 
5 Sept. 26 Ch. 4
Sept. 28 Ch. 4
6 Oct. 3 Ch. 5 - External Forced Convection
Oct. 5 Ch. 5
7 Oct. 10 Ch. 5 Problem Set #2 
Oct. 12 Ch. 6 - Internal Forced Convection
8 Oct. 17 Ch. 6 
Oct. 19 Ch. 6
9 Oct. 24 (Reading Day) 
Oct. 26 Ch. 7 - Natural Convection 
10 Oct. 31 Ch. 7  
Nov. 2 Ch. 8 - Convection with Phase Change 
11 Nov. 7 Ch. 8
Nov. 9 Ch. 9 - Heat Exchangers
12 Nov. 14 Ch. 9 
Nov. 16 Ch. 10 - Radiation 
13 Nov. 21 Ch. 10
Nov. 23 (Thanksgiving Break)
14 Nov. 28 Ch. 10
Nov. 30 Ch. 10
15 Dec. 5 Ch. 10
Dec. 7 Ch. 10