2.051
Introduction to Heat Transfer
Fall 2015
Topics
- Introduction to Heat Transfer, Conduction, Fourier’s Law
- Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
- Recitation
- Thermal Resistance Networks and Examples
- Heat Transfer Enhancement—Fins & Extended Surfaces
- Heat Transfer Enhancement—Fins & Extended Surfaces (cont.)
- Time-dependent Heat Transfer: Heat Equation
- Time-dependent Heat Transfer: Biot Number and Lumped Parameter Model, Examples
- Convection
- Convection, Heat
- Heat Exchangers, Introduction to Phase Change
Readings
- Readings are from the required textbook:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Conduction
- Chapter 3: One-Dimensional, Steady-State Conduction
- Chapter 5: Transient Conduction
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.