MAE2402: Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

3x5% topic tests, 2x3% short lab reports, 9% long lab report, 70% exam

Going to get this out the way right away, this unit isn't easy. It'll require a lot of work, things aren't straight forward and you'll need to do a lot of extra work to just be baseline. The first half of the course is on Thermodynamics, as the unit title suggests, which at first is a little tricky and takes a bit of getting used to. There is one or two main formulas that you will use for Thermodynamics that you'll need to get manipulating for each problem (there are a whole heap of other smaller formulas for thermo, but that's the main one. Know how to use the first law and everything goes from there). Heat Transfer is quite different to Thermo, in the sense Thermo had a few main formulas, while Heat Transfer has a

Dr. Meng Wai Woo

7 past exams, no solutions or answers.

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Prescribed Text: Y.A. Çengel, Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, 2nd ed, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
The textbook is quite useful, you'll need to read up on extra material for this unit.

Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic Concepts
- Energy and Enegry Transfer
- First Law and Energy Analysis
- Properties of Pure Substances
- Property Tables and Ideal Gases
- Energy analysis of closed systems
- Internal energy and specific heats
- Energy transport by mass
- Energy analysis of steay flow open systems
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Refrigerators and heat pump
- The Carnot Cycle
Heat Transfer
- Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
- Steady Heat Conduction
- Steady Heat Conduction in Cylinders and Spheres
- Heat Transfer from Finned Surfaces
- Transient Heat Conduction
- Transient heat conduction in multidimensional geometries
- Convection heat transfer
- External forced convection
- Internal forced convection
- Laminar and Turbulent Flow
- Natural convection
- Internal natural convection
- Radiation heat transfer
- Radiation Properties
- Radiation view factors
- Radiation heat transfer between surfaces

I've also included two sample questions from the Heat Transfer part of the course, with what you'd have to do to approach it and go through it. Just to give you a feel for the unit.

3x1 hr lectures per week, 3 hr tute (not marked), 3 Labs throughout the semester with 2 small lab reports on the first 2 and a long group lab report on the last one

Sem 2 2013

60 - C