MECENG 250B
Advanced Convective Transport and Computational Methods
The transport of heat and mass in fluids in motion; free and forced convection in laminar and turbulent flow over surfaces and within ducts. Fundamentals of computational methods used for solving the governing transport equations will also be covered.
Topics
- This course will provide students with knowledge of the physics of convective transport and an introduction to computational tools that can model convective processes in important applications such as electronics cooling, aerospace thermal management. The course also teaches students to construct computational models of natural and forced convection processes in boundary layers nears surfaces, in enclosures and in ducts or pipes that can be used to design heat exchangers and thermal management equipment for applications.
- Students will gain a knowledge of the mechanisms of convective heat and mass transfer for flow over surfaces and within ducts, and will develop the ability to construct computer programs that implement computation methods that predict the flow and temperature fields and heat transfer performance for convective flows of interest in engineering applications.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027