EGGN-471
Heat Transfer
(Senior level)

The objective of this course is to develop a fundamental and practical understanding of thermal energy transport and to learn the techniques required to analyze and design heat-transfer processes and systems. An important aspect of these objectives is to develop a sound engineering judgment for recognizing salient heat-transfer issues and estimating quantitatively their effects.

The course considers conduction, convection, and radiation. The study of conduction includes both steady and transient processes. Both lumped-capacity and spatial variations are considered. Convection considers both internal and external flows as well as free convection. Primary emphasis is on the use of Nusselt-number correlations to determine heat-transfer coeffients. Radiation includes black and grey surfaces, considering spectral behavior and geometrical shape factors.

EGES-552
Viscous Flow and Boundary Layers
(Graduate level)

The first objective of this course is to develop a firm understanding of fluid mechanics from a continuum-mechanics point of view. Integral to this objective is a rigorous derivation of the conservation equations for mass, momentum, and energy, considering multicomponent transport and chemical reaction. A further aspect of meeting the objective is to develop an ability to derive appropriate differential equations to describe new flow situations.

Beyond developing the conservation equations in a very general form, the next objective is to recognize and exploit the mathematical simplifications of certain viscous boundary-layer situations. These include stagnation flow and channel flow, which are motivated by applications in combustion, materials, and chemical processing. The emphasis is on low-speed laminar flows, which are representative of applications like laboratory flames or chemical vapor deposition.

The third objective to develop simulation capabilities, primarily via computational solution of the appropriate differential equations. In many cases the solution algorithms can be implemented in a spreadsheet setting. In any case, the solution algorithms are representative of those used in modern chemically reacting flow simulation.