Heat Transfer Engineering

Professor C. Balaji is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. Balaji brings over 25 years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of interest include heat transfer, optimization, computational radiation, atmospheric radiation, and inverse heat transfer. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s International Journal of Thermal Sciences. Dr. Balaji Srinivasan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. His areas of research interest include computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, turbulence, and applied machine learning. Dr. Sateesh Gedupudi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. His current research interests focus on experimental investigation and modeling of flow boiling heat transfer and instabilities in mini/micro-channels, pool boiling heat transfer, heat exchangers, and heat transfer in buildings.

• 1 INTRODUCTION1.1 Thermodynamics and heat transfer1.2 Heat transfer and its applications1.3 Modes of heat transfer1.4 Conduction1.5 Convection1.6 Thermal radiation1.7 Combined modes of heat transfer1.8 Phase-change heat transfer1.9 Concept of continuum2 CONDUCTION: FUNDAMENTALS, ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND STEADY STATE2.1 Introduction2.2 Three-dimensional conduction equation2.3 Steady state, one-dimensional conduction in a few commonly encountered systems2.4 Electrical analogy and thermal resistance2.5 Heat transfer in cylindrical coordinates2.6 Steady state conduction in a spherical shell2.7 Composite wall, cylinder and sphere2.8 One-dimensional steady state heat conduction with heat generation2.9 Fin heat transfer2.10 Analysis of fin heat transfer3 CONDUCTION: ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE3.1 Introduction3.2 Lumped capacitance method3.3 Semi-infinite approximation3.4 The method of separation of variables3.5 Analysis of two-dimensional, steady state systems4 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVECTION4.1 Introduction4.2 Fundamentals of convective heat transfer4.3 The heat transfer coefficient4.4 Governing equations4.5 Summary5 FORCED CONVECTION5.1 Introduction5.2 Approximation using order of magnitude analysis5.3 Non-dimensionalization of the governing equations5.4 Approximate solution to the boundary layerequations5.5 Turbulent flow5.6 Internal flows6 NATURAL CONVECTION6.1 Introduction6.2 Natural convection over a flat plate6.3 Boundary layer equations and non-dimensional numbers6.4 Empirical correlations for natural convection7 HEAT EXCHANGERS7.1 Introduction7.2 Classification of heat exchangers7.3 Heat exchanger analysis7.4 The LMTD method7.5 The effectiveness-NTU method7.6 Comparison between the LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods7.7 Other considerations in the design of a heat exchanger8 THERMAL RADIATION8.1 Introduction8.2 Concepts and definitions in radiation8.3 Black body and laws of black body radiation8.4 Properties of real surfaces8.5 Kirchhoff’s law8.6 Net radiative heat transfer from a surface8.7 Radiation heat transfer between surfaces8.8 Radiation view factor and its determination8.9The radiosity-irradiation method8.10 Introduction to gas radiation8.11Equation of transfer or radiative transfer equation (RTE)9 NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER9.1 Introduction9.2 Equations and their classification9.3 Three broad approaches to numerical methods9.4 Steady conduction9.5 Unsteady conduction9.6 Introduction to methods for convection9.7 Practical considerations in engineering problems10 MACHINE LEARNING11.1 Introduction11.2 The Machine Learning Paradigm11.3 Artificial Neural Networks11.4 Convolutional Neural Networks11.5 Applications 11.6 Future possibilities in heat transfer11 BOILING AND CONDENSATION11.1 Introduction11.2 Boiling11.3 Pool boiling11.4 Flow boiling11.5 Condensation11.6 Film condensation on a vertical plate11.7 Film condensation on horizontal tubes11.8 Two-phase pressure drop12 INTRODUCTION TO CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER12.1 Introduction12.2 Fick’s law of diffusion12.3 The convective mass transfer coefficient 12.4 The velocity, thermal, and concentration boundary layers12.5 Analogy between momentum, heat transfer, and mass transfer12.6 Convective mass transfer relations 12.7 A note on the convective heat and mass analogy12.8 Simultaneous heat and mass transfer