Course Objective

Who Should Participate

Practicing engineers and other professionals who are concerned with practical applications involving heat transfer should consider taking this course.

Special Benefits

Participants will receive Heat Transfer—Professional Version: Book/Disk Package 2nd ed. (1999) .

Course Coverage

• Basic Concepts: Conduction, Radiation, & Convection
• Practical and Formal Analysis Approaches
• Conduction: One and Multi-Dimensional Heat Transfer
• Convection: Practical Analysis Approach
• Radiation: Review of Practical Analysis Approach

Special attention is given to

• capabilities and limitations of the practical analysis approach
• establishing a frame of reference for recognizing conditions for which more advanced
analysis involving the use of numerical methods and computer codes is required,

featuring lecture-computer workshop sessions using Dr. Thomas’ textbook and supporting heat transfer software.

Instruction

The course is to be taught by Dr. Lindon Thomas and Associates. Dr. Thomas earned his degrees in mechanical engineering at Tulsa University (BS) and Kansas State University (PhD) and has served on faculties of Akron University, University of Tennessee, and University of Petroleum & Minerals. He has taught undergraduate and graduate heat transfer courses for over thirty years. His professional contributions include recent textbooks on heat transfer and numerous journal and conference publications.

Course Schedule

Lecture - Computer Workshop Sessions

Session I. CONDUCTION

Day 1. INTRODUCTION
• Transport Mechanisms and Laws
• Conduction: Fourier Law of Conduction
• Radiation: Stefan-Boltzmann Law
• Convection: Newton Law of Cooling
• Thermal Resistance Concept

ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER
• Plane and Radial Walls
• Energy-Generating Walls
• Finned Walls
• Workshop Examples

Day 2. MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONDUCTION
• Composite Walls
• Conduction: Mathematical Formulations
• Steady and Unsteady Systems
• Practical Thermal Circuit Method
• Workshop Examples
• Numerical Methods: Introduction

Session II. CONVECTION AND RADIATION

Day 3. CONVECTION
• Characterizing Factors
• Practical Analysis Approach
• Coefficients of Friction and Heat Transfer
• Characteristics of Internal Flow
• Bulk-stream Characteristics
• Forced Convection
• Convection Correlations

Day 4. CONVECTION AND RADIATION

• Practical Thermal Analysis
• Tube Flow
• External Flows
• Flow across Tube Banks
• Workshop Examples
• Practical Numerical Method
• Practical Analysis Approach to Radiation: Review

Course Material

Heat Transfer—Professional Version^2e
Lindon Thomas
Thermal Engineering Associates

The Textbook
• is easy to read;
• is comprehensive, covering basic concepts pertaining to conduction, radiation and convection;
• features a unique approach to the study of convection heat transfer that separates the theory and the practical analysis approach and enables the reader to gain a basic understanding of the key elements of evaluation and design with or without study of the details of boundary layer theory;
• provides extended coverage of convection, which includes evaluation of convection coefficients for shell-side flow of shell-and-tube exchangers and computer analysis of heat exchangers;
• includes many pedagogical advantages such as numerous practical examples employing consistent methodology and categorical glossary; and
• is supported by an exclusive heat transfer software package.

Outstanding Academic Title
Choice, American Library Association

“An extremely useful and highly recommended
reference book for all levels, from
introductory to advanced applications.”
Dr. R Darby. Chemical Engineering
Texas A & M University

Heat Transfer—Professional Version^2e
Capstone Publishing Corporation

Heat Transfer Software
Wen Wu, Ford Motor Company add
Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Tech University

The Software
• is easy to use and requires no manual;
• is comprehensive, treating all basic topics covered in the textbook;
• is coordinated with text by chapter and section numbers that correspond to each topic;
• is integrated with text by the use of actual book examples as topic cases and by indicating
equation numbers that provide the basis for solutions developed by software;
• is adaptable, such that the parameters for each topic can be modified according to the
dictates of the problem under consideration.
• provides quick calculations and simultaneous print-out of dependent variables;
• features graphical and/or animated output which offers visual representations of numerous solutions.