Aims

- Advanced study of the fundamental transport phenomena.
- Provide the necessary theoretical background to enhance the student's ability to independently study transport phenomena.
- Description of the essential aspects of heat and mass transfer for industrial practice.

Main themes

Advanced study of the three types of heat transfer: conduction, free and forced, convection, radiation. Advanced study of mass transfer. Presentation and analysis of heat exchangers.

Content and teaching methods

- General description: Heat conduction and Fourier's law. Ordinary diffusion and Fick's law. Irreversibility of transport phenomena, entropy production.
Phenomenological laws.

- Convection: Phenomenology of convection. Boundary layer near a vertical plane.
Transition to turbulence. Other configurations of external flows. Long and short vertical gutters. Wall heating.

- Thermal Radiation: Basic characteristics. Directional effects. Properties of real surfaces. Radiation in absorbing, emissive, and dispersing materials.
Semi-transparent materials. Methods of calculations. Practical calculations for containers of non-luminous gases. Radiation of flames.

- Heat exchangers: Basic relations. Calculation of the global coefficient of heat transfer. Calculation of heat losses. Water rings.
Efficiency of recuperation and efficiency of the exchanger. Q-T diagrams.
Simultaneous transfer of heat and mass: exchanger with partial vapor condensation, atmospheric refrigerants.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

- Prerequisites :
The two courses of Fluid Mechanics, MECA2321 and MECA2322

- Practical Studies :
The practical studies consist of of certain exercises and seminar series. The seminars will be devoted to the presentation and analysis of recently published papers.

Bibliographical references :
- R. Siegel, J.R. Howell, "Thermal radiation heat transfer", Mc Graw-Hill, 1981
- A. Bejan "Heat transfer", J. Wiley, 1993
- J. Taine, J.P. Petit "Heat transfer", Prentice Hall, 1993
- R.B. Bird, W.E. Stewart, E.N. Lightfoot, "Transport Phenomena", Wiley int. ed., 1960.

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