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MECH 4406 [0.5 credit] Heat Transfer


Mechanisms of heat transfer: fundamentals and solutions. Steady and transient conduction: solution and numerical and electrical analog techniques. Convective heat transfer: free and forced convection for laminar and turbulent flows; heat exchangers. Heat transfer between black and grey surfaces, radiation shields, gas radiation, radiation interchange.
Precludes additional credit for AERO 4446.
Prerequisite(s): MAAE 2400 and (MAAE 3300, MECH 3310, or (ENVE 3001 and permission of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)) and fourth-year status in Engineering.
Lectures three hours a week. Problem analysis and laboratories three hours a week.