ME1351 HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER SYLLABUS B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI:: CHENNAI 600 025
CURRICULUM 2004
B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VI
ME1351 HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

OBJECTIVE

• The course is intended to build up necessary background for understanding the physical behavior of various modes of heat transfer, like, conduction, convection and radiation.
• To understand the application of various experimental heat transfer correlations in engineering calculations.
• To learn the thermal analysis and sizing of heat exchangers.
• To understand the basic concepts of mass transfer.

1.CONDUCTION 11
Basic Concepts – Mechanism of Heat Transfer – Conduction, Convection and Radiation – General Differential equation of Heat Conduction – Fourier Law of Conduction – Cartesian and Cylindrical Coordinates – One Dimensional Steady State Heat Conduction – Conduction through Plane Wall, Cylinders and Spherical systems – Composite Systems – Conduction with Internal Heat Generation – Extended Surfaces – Unsteady Heat Conduction – Lumped Analysis – Use of Heislers Chart.

2.CONVECTION 10
Basic Concepts – Convective Heat Transfer Coefficients – Boundary Layer Concept – Types of Convection – Forced Convection – Dimensional Analysis – External Flow – Flow over Plates, Cylinders and Spheres – Internal Flow – Laminar and Turbulent Flow – Combined Laminar and Turbulent – Flow over Bank of tubes – Free Convection – Dimensional Analysis – Flow over Vertical Plate, Horizontal Plate, Inclined Plate, Cylinders and Spheres.

3. PHASE CHANGE HEAT TRANSFER AND HEAT EXCHANGERS 9
Nusselts theory of condensation-pool boiling, flow boiling, correlations in boiling and condensation. Types of Heat Exchangers – LMTD Method of heat Exchanger Analysis – Effectiveness – NTU method of Heat Exchanger Analysis – Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient – Fouling Factors.

4. RADIATION 8
Basic Concepts, Laws of Radiation – Stefan Boltzman Law, Kirchoff Law –Black Body Radiation –Grey body radiation Shape Factor Algebra – Electrical Analogy – Radiation Shields –Introduction to Gas Radiation.

5.MASS TRANSFER 7
Basic Concepts – Diffusion Mass Transfer – Fick’s Law of Diffusion – Steady state Molecular Diffusion – Convective Mass Transfer – Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer Analogy – Convective Mass Transfer Correlations

TUTORIAL 15 TOTAL : 60
Note: (Use of standard heat and mass transfer data book is permitted in the University examination)

TEXT BOOKS
Sachdeva R C, “Fundamentals of Engineering Heat and Mass Transfer” New Age International, 1995.
Yadav R “Heat and Mass Transfer” Central Publishing House, 1995.

REFERENCES

Ozisik M.N, “Heat Transfer”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1994.
Nag P.K, “ Heat Transfer”, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2002
Holman J.P “Heat and Mass Transfer” Tata McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Kothandaraman C.P “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer” New Age International, New Delhi, 1998
Frank P. Incropera and David P. DeWitt, “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer”, John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
6 Velraj R, “Heat & Mass Transfer”, Ane Books, New Delhi, 2004