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Heat and Mass Transfer

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0501/08
Abbreviation PTH
Course title Heat and Mass Transfer
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Stanislav Honus, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic laws and analogies of transmission phenomena.
2. Momentum transfer, Euler, Navier-Stokes and Bernouli equations for three-dimensional arrangement, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.
3. Energy transfer, shell balance. Fourier-Kirchhoff equation, selection of initial and boundary conditions.
4. Mass transfer, I. and II Fick's law of diffusion
5. Theory of similarity and modeling, similarity theorems. Basic methods of similarity theory, analysis of momentum, energy and mass transfer. Mathematical modeling of transfer phenomena, mathematical three-dimensional model, solving of calculations by Fluent model. Visibility of transmission phenomena.
6. Differential equations of heat conduction, non-stationary heat conduction - analytical solution, conditions of uniqueness. Numerical methods unsteady one-dimensional heat conduction.
7. Numerical multidimensional solution of non-stationary heat transfer, explicit and implicit method.
8. Theory of similarity in thermal convection, general forms of criteria equations. Natural and forced convection.
9. Heat transfer at boiling, types and modes of boiling. Heat transfer during condensation. Phase interface transmission phenomena.
10. Heat transfer by radiation between solid bodies separated by a perfectly flowing environment, basic terms, radiation of an absolutely black body, gray body, radiation of real bodies, closed system.
11. Heat transfer between bodies arbitrarily placed in space, open system, radiation coefficient.
12. Basic knowledge of thermal radiation of gases and flame, shielding walls, radiation temperature measurement.
13. Experimental problem - measurement of tube in tube. Convection heat transfer at supersonic speeds.
14. Heat exchangers, sorting, brief characteristics, construction. Basics of heat and hydraulic calculation of recuperative heat exchangers, cross-exchangers, transfer number NTU, efficiency of exchangers.

Literature

INCROPERA, Frank P. Principles of heat and mass transfer. 7th ed., international student version. Singapore: Wiley, c2013. ISBN 978-0-470-64615-1.
KAVIANY, M. Essentials of heat transfer: principles, materials, and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-107-01240-0 .
SUNDÉN, Bengt a Mohammad FAGHRI, ed. Transport phenomena in fires. Southampton: WIT Press, c2008. ISBN 978-1-84564-160-3.

Advised literature

KAKAÇ, Sadik, YENER, Yaman, PRAMUANJAROENKIJ, Anchasa. Convective heat transfer. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2014. ISBN 978-1-4665-8344-3.
MODEST, M. F. Radiative heat transfer. 3rd ed. New York: Academic Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-12-386944-9.