Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering: Comprehensive Course from Basic to the Advanced Modeling and CFD Simulation
Agenda: Online-Live Lectures 12 sessions x 60 min, 6 weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 09 April to 16 May, 18:00-19:00 Berlin Time. Registration Form (Deadline: Early registration with reduced fee 31 March, Regular 06 April 2024).
This heat transfer course is pivotal for students and experts across various engineering, biomedical and environmental disciplines, providing the foundation and tools necessary to design and analyze energy systems and thermal management solutions for industrial processes, technological applications and related research works. By understanding the mechanisms of heat transfer, students can innovate in areas ranging from chemical, mechanical, material, mines and space technologies, to manufacturing processes, renewable energy and even biotechnology applications.
This course starting from basic heat transfer concepts, conduction, convection and radiation mechanisms towards developing the required 1D, 2D and 3D equations and modeling under steady and unsteady conditions. It covers both forced and natural phenomena, theoretical, experimental, empirical and and computational solutions. Upon completing this course, students will have acquired the capability to:
- Apply fundamental principles to solve practical heat transfer problems across conduction, convection, and radiation.
- Use empirical correlations and analytical methods to design and analyze thermal systems, including heat exchangers and thermal management solutions.
- Employ numerical methods and computational tools to simulate complex heat transfer phenomena and optimize thermal processes.
- Understand the interplay between heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and mass transfer in engineering applications, enhancing their ability to contribute to multidisciplinary projects.
These skills empower students to tackle current and future challenges in energy, sustainability, and technology development, making them valuable assets in both academic research and industry settings.
Lectures
- Introduction to Heat Transfer
- Overview of Heat Transfer Mechanisms: conduction, convection, and radiation.
- Importance of Heat Transfer in various engineering applications.
- Basic laws of Heat Transfer: Fourier’s law, Newton’s law of cooling, Stefan-Boltzmann law.
- Fundamentals of Heat Conduction
- One-dimensional steady-state conduction.
- Thermal resistance concept and heat transfer through composite layers.
- Critical thickness of insulation.
- Multi-Dimensional Heat Conduction
- 2D and 3D steady heat conduction, with and without heat generation
- Cylindrical and spherical geometries
- Extended Surfaces and Fins
- Analysis of fins for enhanced heat transfer.
- Efficiency and effectiveness of fins.
- Applications
- Transient Heat Conduction
- Lumped capacitance method.
- Transient heat conduction in large and small objects.
- Introduction to Heat Convection
- Fundamentals of fluid flow: laminar and turbulent flow.
- Boundary layer concept.
- Dimensional analysis and similarity.
- Forced Convection
- Flow over plates and cylinders.
- Empirical correlations for heat transfer coefficient.
- Heat transfer in pipes and ducts.
- constant surface temperature and heat flux conditions.
- Natural Convection
- Physical mechanism and governing equations.
- External and internal natural convection.
- Radiative Heat Transfer
- Basic principles and laws of radiation.
- Blackbody and real surfaces.
- View factors and radiative exchange between surfaces.
- Phase Change Heat Transfer
- Boiling and condensation mechanisms.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Heat Transfer
- Introduction to numerical methods for heat transfer problems
- Governing Equations and CFD Simulations
- Case studies
- CFD Simulation for Heat Transfer Session II
- OpenFOAM (CFD) Simulations
- Ansys Simulations
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