ME 53Heat Transfer I
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1968–69
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1968–69; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Introduction to heat transfer mechanisms. The formulation and solution of steady and transient heat conduction. Radiant heat transfer including exchange laws and view factors. Introductory convective heat transfer.
As printed in the 1968–69 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1968–69 1 calendar
Introduction to heat transfer mechanisms. The formulation and solution of steady and transient heat conduction. Radiant heat transfer including exchange laws and view factors. Introductory convective heat transfer.
1964–65 to 1967–68 3 calendars
Introduction to heat transfer mechanisms. The formulation of heat transfer problems. Temperature distributions in solids under steady and transient heat conduction. Laminar forced convection, the use of boundary layer theory and the integral method for evaluating the heat transfer
coefficient. Laminar and turbulent free convection, empirical correlations and introductory analysis. Reynolds and Colburn analogies. 3 lectures, 3 hours laboratory, alternative weeks.
1963–64 1 calendar
Steady and unsteady state conduction; natural and forced convection; heat transfer by radiation. Heat exchanger design and analysis. Heat transfer in high speed flow. Mass transfer.
3 lectures, 3 hours laboratory, one term.
54, Thermodynamics II. Review of the basic concepts and postulates of thermodynamics and the conditions for equilibrium. Reactive systems. An introduction to irreversible thermodynamics. Applications to selected engineering systems including direct conversion devices, gas turbines, Advanced topics in heat transfer. Prerequisites: ME 52.
3 lectures, one term.
Prerequisites: ME 52, Math 31.