Week - 1 |
Modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation), engineering relevance, key definitions |
Week - 2 |
Basic conduction law, heat flux, thermal conductivity |
Week - 3 |
Single/multilayer walls, composite structures, thermal resistance model |
Week - 4 |
Steady-state conduction in cylindrical and spherical systems |
Week - 5 |
Extended Surfaces (Fins) types, performance, efficiency, effectiveness |
Week - 6 |
Lumped capacitance model, Biot and Fourier numbers, basic transient analysis |
Week - 7 |
Semi-infinite solids, chart and table methods, practical examples |
Week - 8 |
Newton’s law of cooling, types of convection, boundary layer concept |
Week - 9 |
Pipe flow, Reynolds and Nusselt numbers, heat transfer coefficients |
Week - 10 |
Flow over flat plates and cylinders, empirical correlations |
Week - 11 |
Grashof and Rayleigh numbers, applications of natural convection |
Week - 12 |
Stefan-Boltzmann, Planck, and Kirchhoff laws, gray body approximation |
Week - 13 |
View factors, radiation resistances, network method |
Week - 14 |
Thematic recap, industrial applications, complex problem-solving sessions |