MEAM 333
Heat and Mass Transfer
Spring 2009
Course Schedule
Homework
Last Year's
Exams
COMSOL Demo
Slides
Typos
Instructor
Dr. Jennifer Lukes
jrlukes@seas.upenn.edu
222 Towne
Office hours: After class, Tuesday 1:30-2:30 p.m., or by appointment
Teaching Assistant
Mr. Ian Cosden
cosden@seas.upenn.edu
B12 Towne
Office hours: Thursday 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location and Time
Lecture: MW 3:00-4:30 p.m., Towne 311
Recitation: Wed. 2:00-3:00 p.m., Towne 307
Course Description
This course is a required course for all MEAM undergraduates. It covers
fundamentals of heat transfer and applications to practical problems in energy
conversion and conservation. Emphasis will be on developing a physical and
analytical understanding of conductive, convective, and radiative heat
transfer, as well as heat transfer with phase change. Students will develop an
ability to apply governing principles and physical intuition to solve problems.
Topics covered will include:
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Types of heat transfer processes, their relative importance, and the interactions between them
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Solutions of steady state and transient conduction
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Emission and absorption of radiation by real surfaces and radiative transfer between surfaces
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Heat transfer by forced and natural convection owing to flow around bodies and
through ducts
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Analytical solutions for some sample cases and applications of correlations for
engineering problems
Required Textbook
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 6th edition, Incropera, DeWitt,
Bergman, Lavine, 2007.
Homework
Homework will be assigned weekly on the class web page under
"Homework" and is due Friday afternoon by 4:30
p.m. . Homework must be stapled. If not stapled the teaching assistant has the
discretion to take 5 points off.
NO LATE HOMEWORK WILL
BE ACCEPTED. Instead, the lowest homework grade will be dropped. The week
following submission, graded homework will be returned and solutions will be
posted on the web page.
Quizzes
Short in-class quizzes will be administered at random. Students will receive
full credit for taking the quiz (whether the answers are correct or not). One quiz grade will be dropped.
Exams
Two midterms will be given. The midterms will be held on Wednesdays in class
and will be one-and-a-half hours long.
The dates: Wednesday February 25th and
Wednesday April 15th. The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday May 6th, 9-11
a.m., Moore 216.
Grading
The grading breakdown will be:
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