ENGR 385 – HEAT TRANSFER

  • Introduction of heat transfer modes
  • Fundamentals of conduction
  • Steady state conduction
  • Transient conduction
  • Radiation heat transfer
  • Convection

ENGR 484 – HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

  • Heat exchangers
  • Free convection heat transfer
  • Phase-change heat transfer (boiling & condensation)
  • Mass transfer

ENGR 479 – MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES IN THERMAL-FLUIDS

  • Instruments and methods of measuring fluid thermo-physical properties.
  • Pressure-based velocity measurements.
  • Thermal anemometry.
  • Particle-based techniques for velocity measurement.
  • Sonic anemometry/thermometry.
  • Measurement of flow pressure and density.
  • Measurement techniques for temperature and heat flux.
  • Fundamentals of data processing and analysis.

ENGR 583 – MULTIPHASE FLOWS

  • Propagation of plane waves on a free surface or an interface
  • Instabilities of liquid sheets and jets
  • Drag on spherical particles
  • Droplet dynamics & bubble dynamics
  • Dispersed multiphase flows

ENGR 310 – FLUID MECHANICS II

  • Turbomachinery
  • Compressible flow
  • Differential analysis of fluid flow
  • Potential flow theory: the irrotational flow approximation
  • Boundary layer theory
  • External flow: drag and lift