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Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 635-2032/04
Abbreviation STP
Course title Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marek Velička, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction of heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
2. Conduction. Thermal and heat fields, temperature gradient. First Fourier Law – heat flow and heat. Second Fourier Law – steady and non-steady states. Joule-Lenz Law. Thermal conductivity coefficient, thermal diffusivity coefficient. Boundary conditions for conductive heat transfer problems.
3. Convection. Forced and unforced convection. Heat transfer coefficient. Conductional-convectional heat transfer.
4. Fundamentals of similarity of systems – model and reality. Laws of similarity, criteria-numbers, equations. Physical modelling vs. abstract modelling.
5. Thermal radiation. Physical fundamentals of radiation and theory. Radiation properties. Emissivity. Black and grey surfaces (body). Radiation flux, areal radiation flux. Five laws – Planck, Wien, Stefan-Boltzmann, Lambert, Kirchfoff. Radiation between bodies – variants. View factor relations. Radiation of gases and mixture of gasses in interaction with surfaces.
6. Fluid properties – variations of pressure, ideal gas equations, compression, expansion, dilatation, viscosity, surface tension, thermodynamics system gas – steam. Viscous and inviscid fluids.
7. Hydromechanics. Basic statics and dynamics equations – Euler, Navier-Stokes, Bernoulli, continuity.
8. Fluid statics. Static of one gas system. Statics of two gases thermodynamics system. Application in flame furnace device.
9. Fluid dynamics. Reynolds number. Laminar and turbulent flow. Velocity flow rates. Specification.
10. Pressure losses. Local losses, height loss, friction losses. Pressure losses developed by chimney. Fundamental laws and coefficients of losses.
11. Gas discharge openings. Gas discharge at low speeds. Velocity, volume and mass flows determination.
12. The commercial software utilization in conditions of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. FEM, FVM, CFD. Step-by-step creating the simulation. Advantages and disadvantages of simulations and what to do, to be the simulation correct and usable in real processes.

Literature

[1] CENGEL, Y.A.,‎ GHAJAR, A.J. Heat and Mass transfer:Fundamentals and Applications. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. ISBN 978-00-733-9818-1 .
[2] BEJAN, A., KRAUS, A. D. Heat Transfer Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 978-0-471-39015-2 .
[3] STREETER, V. L., BEDFORD, K. W. A WYLIE, B. E. Fluid mechanics. 9th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-07-062537-9  (Chapter 4).
[4] KRAUSE, E. Fluid Mechanics. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-540-22981-7 .

Advised literature

[1] CENGEL, Y.A.,‎ GHAJAR, A.J. Fluid mechanics:Fundamentals and Applications. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. ISBN 978-12-596-9653-4 .
[2] TALER, J., DUDA, P. Solving Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems. Berlin: Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-33470-5 .
[3] MULLINGER, P., JENKINS, B. Industrial and Process Furnaces: Principles, Design and Operation. 1st ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7506-8692-1 .