Advance Heat Transfer
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Advance Heat Transfer Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advance Heat Transfer (subject code 2171911) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 34 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2171911)Unit 1 Heat conduction with heat generation
- Plane wall and cylinder with uniform heat generation
- Two-dimensional steady state conduction
Unit 2 Transient and multi dimensional heat conduction
- Exact solution
- use of Heisler and Grober chart
- integrated method
Unit 3 Heat Transfer through extended surfaces
- Steady state analysis and optimization
- radial fins of rectangular and hyperbolic profiles- longitudinal fin of rectangular profile radiating to free space
Unit 4 Convective Heat Transfer
- Forced convection: Introduction
- heat transfer in high velocity flow
- empirical relations for pipe and tube flow
- flow across cylinders
- spheres and tube banks
- liquid-metal heat transfer Natural Convection: Introduction
- empirical relations for free convection
- free convection from vertical planes
- horizontal cylinders
- horizontal plates
- inclined surfaces
- spheres and enclosed space
- non-newtonian fluids
- combined free and forced convection
Unit 5 Convection with change of phase
- Condensation: Laminar film on a vertical surface
- Turbulent film on a vertical surface
- Film condensation in other configurations
- Drop condensation
- effect of non-condensable gases in condensing equipments Boiling: Pool boiling regimes
- Nucleate boiling and peak heat flux
- Film boiling and minimum heat flux
- Flow boiling
Unit 6 Radiation heat transfer
- Radiation effect on temperature measurements
- radiation properties of a participating medium
- emissivity and absorptivity of gases and gases mixtures
- heat transfer from the human body
- radiative exchange and overall heat transfer in furnaces
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