Lecture Handouts

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Course code: LA5220 Course Name: Heat and Mass Transfer

Course Objectives:-
This course is designed to make the students familiar with the concepts of heat and mass transfer and their
applications in engineering.

Lecture No. Contents Text/ Ref. Pages

Book
1. Basic Concepts – Mechanism of Heat Transfer – Conduction– TB 2-10
Convection and Radiation
2. Combined heat transfer mechanism – Analogy between heat TB 114-116
and electricity flow –Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
3. Fourier Law of Conduction–Thermal conductivity of materials- One TB 68-70
Dimensional Steady State Heat Conduction
4. General Differential equation of Heat Conduction - Initial and TB 82-87, 90
boundary conditions
5. One Dimensional Steady State Heat Conduction – Conduction TB 112-118
through plane wall –Composite wall
6. One Dimensional Steady State Heat Conduction – Conduction TB 136-140
through Cylindrical systems –Composite cylindrical wall - Critical
thickness of insulation
7. One Dimensional Steady State Heat Conduction – Conduction TB 141-143
through Spherical systems–Composite Spherical wall- Critical
thickness of insulation
8. Conduction with Internal Heat Generation– plane wall TB 142-145
9. Conduction with Internal Heat Generation– Cylindrical and TB 149-150
Spherical systems
10. Utility of fins-types of fins - applications TB 154-155
11. Fins of uniform cross-sectional area-Infinitely long-Insulated tip-Tip TB 156-161
loosing heat-Temperature distribution and heat transfer
12. Fin effectiveness & efficiency- Errors of measurement of TB 164-165
temperature in thermometer wells
13. Transient Conduction: Lumped capacitance method TB 280-285
14. Unsteady state heat conduction in plane wall using Heisler charts RB (i) 238-240
15. Unsteady state heat conduction in cylinder and sphere using Heisler RB (i) 241-242
charts
16. Basic Concepts: Boundary Layer Concept – Hydrodynamic and TB 378-383
thermal boundary layers- Convective Heat Transfer Coefficients
17. Physical Interpretation of the Dimensionless Parameters TB 407-409
18. External Flow – Flow over Plates TB 434-446
19. External Flow – Flow over Cylinders and Spheres TB 455-459
20. External Flow – Flow over Spheres and tube banks TB 465, 468-471
21. Internal Flow –Flow through circular tube-Laminar flow TB 518-525,
537-539
22. Internal Flow –Flow through circular tube-turbulent flow TB 544-545
23. Flow through noncircular duct TB 552-553
24. Free convection – Mechanism of heat transfer TB 594-596
 25. Free convection: Flow over Vertical Plate– Horizontal Plate– TB 605, 608-610
Inclined Plate
26. Free convection: Cylinders and Spheres TB 613, 617
27. Boiling; Pool boiling– correlations in boiling TB 655-661
28. Flow boiling TB 669-671
29. Theory of condensation- Film wise and dropwise condensation TB 673-679, 690
30. Classification of Heat Exchangers TB 706-708
31. Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient- Fouling Factor TB 708-710
32. Analysis of heat exchanger- LMTD method TB 711-715
33. Analysis of heat exchanger using Effectiveness – NTU method TB 722-725
34. Basic Concepts – Diffusion Mass Transfer- Fick’s Law of Diffusion - RB (i) 796-797
Heat and Mass Transfer Analogy
35. Steady state Molecular Diffusion- Convective Mass Transfer RB (i) 799, 810-811
36. Basic Concepts– Laws of Radiation – Black body and gray body TB 768-771,
radiation 783-785, 810
37. Shape Factor Algebra TB 862-865
38. Black Body Radiation heat exchange TB 872-873
39. Grey body radiation heat exchange TB 876-879, 884
40. Radiation Shields TB 886

Learning Outcomes:-

 Apply principles of heat and mass transfer to basic engineering systems.

 Analyse heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation.
 Analyse condensation and boiling processes.
 Analyse and design heat exchangers.
 Analyse mass diffusion processes and calculate the flux in a diffusion process.

Text Books [TB]:

Incropera, F.P., “Fundamentals of Heat & Mass Transfer”, Wiley Publication, 7th edition, 2015.

Reference Books [RB]:

i. Cengel, Y. A. and Ghajar, A.J. “Heat and Mass Transfer”, 4th ed., Tata McGraw Hill Co Ltd. 2013.

ii. Thirumaleswar, M. “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer”, Pearson Education, 1st edition, 2013.

iii. Kreith, F. and Bohn, M.S., “Principles of Heat Transfer”, Brooks/Cole, 6th edition, 2006.

iv. Holman, J.P., “Heat Transfer”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, 6th edition, 2008.

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