ME-634 NUMERICAL METHODS IN HEAT TRANSFER
Credit Hours = 3
COURSE CONTENT
- Experimental, analytical and numerical methods and their limitations and strengths. Mass conservation equation, momentum equation and energy equation. Partial differential equations, physical meaning of parabolic, elliptic and hyperbolic equations. Introduction to methods of deriving discretization equations; control volume formulation; numerical solution of heat conduction problem; steady and un-steady one-dimensional conduction; two- and three-dimensional problems; solution of algebraic equation; relaxation. Convection and diffusion schemes in comparisons to exact solution; discretization for one, two and three dimensions; boundary condition; false diffusion. Pressure and velocity corrections; SIMPLE and SIMPLER algorithms. Use of commercial codes for different applications.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
- Dale Anderson, John C. Tannehill, Richard H. Pletcher, Ramakanth Munipalli, Vijaya Shankar, “Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer”, Forth Edition, CRC Press, 2020.
- W. J. Minkowycz, E. M. Sparrow, J. Y. Murthy, “Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer”, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2000.
- Pradip Majumdar, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2022.
