ENME345-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009

Thermo-fluids Transport

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2009

Description

Dimensional similarity, boundary layers, turbulence, introductory heat transfer.

The course is split in two parts. A fluid mechanics part which build on ENME 224 Fluid Mechanics A and a heat transfer part following on from ENME 225 Engineering Thermodynamics A.

• In the fluid mechanics, the conservation laws in differential forms are introduced (the Navier-Stokes equations) and simple viscous flow solutions are derived (Poiseuille or Couette flows). The course then covers external flows which are important in aerodynamics, for example, to understand the origin of lift and drag. The course provides the students with the necessary tools to understand such flows: potential flow and boundary layer theories. Finally, dimensional analysis and similitude are introduced to understand how to analyse a prototype from a scaled model.  

• In heat transfer, the 3 main modes of heat transfer are introduced (conduction, convection, and radiation) with their associated laws. The course covers the basics of fins to enhance heat transfer and the lumped capacitance method to described the transient cooling/heating of bodies. The underlying principles of heat exchangers are explained and correlations to describe forced or natural convective heat transfer are introduced. Finally blackbody and greybody radiation is covered and the radiative heat transfer between surfaces explained.

Prerequisites

Lecturer

Mathieu Sellier

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 10%
Assignment 2 10%
Final Exam 60%
Test 1 10%
Test 2 10%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $536.00

International fee $2,570.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENME345 Occurrences

  • ENME345-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009