Syllabus
JME 3710: Principles of Heat Transfer


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This is the tentative information for the course and it is subject to change without notice. Check periodically! Last updated on September 20, 2011.


# DATE TOPIC NOTES CH.
1 9/1 Heat Transfer Intro. -- 1
2 9/6 Intro. to Conduction hw 1 assigned 2
3 9/8 1-D Steady Conduction: Circuit Analogy -- 3
4 9/13 1-D Steady Conduction: Heat Gen. hw 1 due / hw 2 ass. 3
5 9/15 Steady Conduction: Fins & Multi-Dim. -- 3
6 9/20 1-D Unsteady Conduction: Capacitance hw 2 due / hw 3 ass. 5
7 9/22 1-D Unsteady Conduction Analysis -- 5
8 9/27 1-D Unsteady Conduction Analysis hw 3 due / hw 4 ass. 5
9 9/29 Introduction to Convection -- 6
10 10/4 Introduction to Convection hw 4 due$^{\dag }$ / hw 5 ass. 6
11 10/6 Introduction to Convection -- 6
12 10/11 External Flow hw 5 due / hw 6 ass. 7
13 10/13 Internal Flow -- 8
14 10/18 Internal Flow / Free Convection hw 6 due / hw 7 ass. 8/9
15 10/20 Free Convection -- 9
16 10/25 Introduction to Heat Exchangers hw 7 due / hw 8 ass. 11
17 10/27 Heat Exchangers: LMTD Analysis -- 11
18 11/1 Heat Exchangers: $\epsilon$-NTU Analysis hw 8 due$^{\ddag }$ / hw 9 ass. 11
19 11/3 MIDTERM EXAM -- --
20 11/8 Introduction to Radiation hw 9 due / hw 10 ass. 12
21 11/10 Blackbodies & Real Surfaces -- 12
22 11/15 Kirchoff's Laws & Gray Surfaces hw 10 due / hw 11 ass. 12
23 11/17 Radiation View Factors -- 13
24 11/22 View Factors & Blackbody Exchange hw 11 due$^{\S}$ / hw 12 ass. 13
-- 11/24 THANKSGIVING BREAK -- --
25 11/29 Blackbody & Graybody Exchange hw 12 due / hw 13 ass. 13
26 12/1 Exchange Among Diffuse Gray Surfaces -- 13
27 12/6 The Graybody Matrix Problem hw 13 due$^{\P}$ 13
28 12/8 2-D Conduction: Mathematical Techniques -- --
$^{\dag }$Last day to hand in homeworks 1 through 4
$^{\ddag }$Last day to hand in homeworks 5 through 8
$^{\S}$Last day to hand in homeworks 9 through 11
$^{\P}$Last day to hand in remaining homeworks



Mike Wendl 2011-09-20