Conduction and

Radiation Heat Transfer

(ME G533)
BITS Pilani Dr. Santanu Prasad Datta
Pilani Campus
Department of Mechanical Engineering
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
 Evaluation Scheme:

Evaluation Component Duration Weightage Date & Time Nature of

(min.) (%) Component

Test 1 90 30% To be announced Open Book

Term-project/Assignment - 15% Continuous Open Book

Simulation - 15% Continuous Open Book
Comprehensive Exam 120 40% To be announced Open Book

Text Book:
TB1: M. Necati Ozisik, “Heat Conduction”, John Wiley & Sons, 2 nd edition, 1993.
TB2: Michael F. Modest, Radiative Heat Transfer, Academic Press, 2 nd edition, 2003.
Reference Books:
RB1: Latif M. Jiji, “Heat Conduction”, Springer, 3rd edition, 2009.
RB 2: Theodore L. Bergman, Adrienne S. Lavine, Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt, “Fundamentals of Heat and
Mass Transfer”,Wiley, 7th edition, 2011.
RB2: Muralidhar, K. and Banerjee, J., “Conduction and Radiation”, Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
RB3: Vedat S. Arpaci, “Conduction Heat Transfer”, Addison-Wesley, 1991.
RB4: John R. Howell and Robert Siegel, “Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer”, Taylor & Francis, 4 th Edition, 2002.
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Lecture Learning Objectives Topics to be covered Chapter
No. Nos.
1-4 Heat conduction equations with Fundamental of conduction heat transfer (CHT) - Ch. 1-3
different geometry, boundary steady and transient CHT, boundary conditions, (TB1)
conditions, solution methodology separation of variables, Eigen values
5-10 Different methodologies to solve Exact solution of CHT - Duhamel’s theorem, Ch. 5-7
steady state and transient heat Green’s function, Laplace transform, Fourier (RB1)/ Ch.
conduction transform 1-2 (RB1)
11-13 Mathematical modelling of moving Application of transient conduction heat transfer Ch. 3-4
heat source and heat sink (TCHT) - stationary and moving heat source/sink (RB1)
problems
14-16 Heat conduction through porous Introduction about porous media, steady state Ch. 5
media and transient heat transfer through porous media (RB1)
17-21 Phase-change problems with Application of TCHT - moving boundary problems Ch. 6
variable boundary wall (melting and solidification) (RB1)
22-23 An overview of nonlinear conduction Source of nonlinearity, Taylor series method, Ch. 7
problems Kirchhoff Transformation, Boltzmann (RB1)
Transformation
24-25 Approximate solution: Integral Integral method approximation and accuracy of Ch. 8
method integral method (RB1)
26-27 Perturbation solutions Perturbation solution procedure and example, Ch. 9
Variable thermal conductivity (RB1)
28-32 Fundamentals of radiation, basic Fundamental of radiation heat transfer (RHT) – Ch. 1 & 3
laws, some definition of radiative radiation characteristics of matter, radiative (TB2)
heat transfer properties of surfaces
33-36 Definition and method to evaluate View factors Ch. 4 (TB2)
view factor
37-39 Radiative heat exchange between Radiative heat exchange between gray, diffusive, Ch. 5-7
different surfaces partially-specular and non-gray surfaces, (TB2)
radiation network, radiation shield
40-42 Equation of radiative transfer in Radiative heat transfer with participating media – Ch. 9 (TB2)
participating media BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
absorbing, emitting and scattering
Basic Modes of Heat
Transfer

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