Heat Transfer Syllabus Pune University

Will you please give here syllabus for Heat Transfer subject of T.E. –Mechanical Engineering program of Pune University?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

As per your request here I am giving you syllabus for Heat Transfer subject of T.E. –Mechanical Engineering program of Pune University.

T.E. –Mechanical Engineering program:
Syllabus -Heat Transfer Subject:

Unit – I Conduction (08 hrs)
Introduction and Basic Concepts: Application areas of heat transfer, Modes and Laws of heat transfer, Three dimensional heat conduction equation in Cartesian coordinates and its simplified equations, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity.

One dimensional steady state heat conduction without heat generation:
Heat conduction in plane wall, composite slab, composite cylinder, composite sphere, electrical analogy, concept of thermal resistance and conductance, three dimensional heat conduction equations in cylindrical and spherical coordinates (no derivation) and its reduction to one dimensional form, critical radius of insulation for cylinders and spheres, economic thickness of insulation.

Unit – II Heat Generation and Transient Conduction
One dimensional steady state heat conduction with heat generation:
Heat conduction with uniform heat generation in plane wall, cylinder & sphere with different boundary conditions.
Transient heat conduction: Validity and criteria of lumped system analysis, Biot and Fourier number, Time constant and response of thermocouple, Introduction to transient heat analysis using charts.

Unit – III Boundary Conditions and Extended Surfaces Boundary and initial conditions:
Temperature boundary condition, heat flux boundary condition, convection boundary condition, radiation boundary condition.

Heat transfer through extended surface:
Types of fins, Governing Equation for constant cross sectional area fins, solution (with derivation) for infinitely long & adequately long (with insulated end) fins and short fins (without derivation), efficiency & effectiveness of fins.

Unit – IV Convection Fundamentals of convection: Mechanism of natural and forced convection, local and average heat transfer coefficient, concept of velocity & thermal boundary layers.
Forced convection: Dimensionless numbers and their physical significance, empirical correlations for external & internal flow for both laminar and turbulent flows.
Natural convection: Introduction, dimensionless numbers and their physical significance, empirical correlations for natural convection.

Unit –V Radiation Thermal Radiation:
Fundamental concepts of radiation, different laws of radiation, Radiation shape factor, Heat exchange by radiation between two black and diffuse gray surfaces, Radiation shields.

Unit –VI Heat Exchangers and Phase Change Phenomenon Heat exchangers: Classification and applications, heat exchanger analysis – LMTD for parallel and counter flow heat exchanger, effectiveness– NTU method for parallel and counter flow heat exchanger, introduction to cross flow heat exchanger, LMTD correction factor, design criteria for heat exchanger, introduction to heat pipe.

Condensation and Boiling: Boiling heat transfer, types of boiling, pool boiling curve and forced boiling phenomenon, condensation heat transfer, film wise and drop wise condensation (No numerical treatment).

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