Advanced Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (subject code ME01000431) as prescribed for MEE · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 38 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 (ME01000431)Unit 1 Entropy
- A Measure of Disorder: Increases of entropy principle and its application
- Tds relation
- entropy change of solid
- liquid and ideal gas, entropy transfer with heat transfer
- entropy generation in open and closed system
- entropy balance Exergy: A Measure of Work Potential: Exergy transfer by heat
- work & mass
- decrease of exergy principle and exergy destruction
- applications of Gouy–Stodola theorem
- exergy balance for steady flow and closed processes
- second law efficiency Law of Corresponding States
Unit 2 Conduction
- Conduction Rate Equation
- Heat Diffusion Equation
- Boundary and Initial Conditions
- General conduction Equation
- Conduction with Heat Generation
- Extended Surfaces with Uniform and Non-Uniform Cross Sections
- Two-Dimensional Steady State Conduction: Mathematical
- Graphical and Numerical Analysis of Two- Dimensional Heat Conduction Unsteady State Conduction: Lumped Parameter Analysis
- Numerical Solutions
- Heisler and Semi Analytical Analysis
Unit 3 Convection
- Different Types of Flow and Boundary Layers
- Flow Through Tubes
- Flow Over Flat Plates
- Spheres and Tube Banks
- Free Convection on Flat Surfaces
- Spheres and Enclosed Spaces Heat Transfer during Phase Transformation: Boiling: Pool Boiling and its Correlations
- Forced Convection Boiling
- Condensation: Laminar and Turbulent Film Condensation
- Film Condensation in Radial Surfaces and Horizontal Tubes
- Heat Pipe
Unit 4 Radiation
- Radiation Intensity
- Blackbody Radiation
- Emission from Real Surfaces
- Radiation shields
- Hottel Crossed String Method Radiation Combine with Conduction and Convection
- Radiation Exchange with Participating Media
- Radiative exchange and overall heat transfer in furnaces