Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer

3 units

This course examines heat conduction and convection through various fundamental problems that are constructed from the traditional conservation laws for mass, momentum, and energy. Problems include the variable-area fin, the unsteady Dirichlet, Robbins, and Rayleigh problems, multi-dimensional steady conduction, the Couette flow problem, duct convection, and boundary layer convection. Though some numerics are discussed, emphasis is on mathematical technique and includes the extended power series method, similarity reduction, separation of variables, integral transforms, and approximate integral methods.