MEAM 333
Heat and Mass Transfer
Spring 2012

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Instructor
Prof. Jennifer Lukes
jrlukes@seas.upenn.edu
247 Towne
Office hours: After class or by appointment

Teaching Assistant
Mr. Mehdi Zanjani
bmehdi@seas.upenn.edu
B12 Towne
Office hours: Monday 3:30-4:30 and Thursday 11-noon

Location and Time
Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-4:30 p.m., Moore 216
Recitation 1 (section 201): Wednesday 11-noon, Towne 321
Recitation 2 (section 202): Wednesday 2-3 p.m., Towne 315

Course Description
This course 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:

Types of heat transfer processes, their relative importance, and the interactions between them

Solutions of steady state and transient conduction

Emission and absorption of radiation by real surfaces and radiative transfer between surfaces

Heat transfer by forced and natural convection owing to flow around bodies and through ducts

Analytical solutions for some sample cases and applications of correlations for engineering problems

Required Textbook
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th edition, Bergman, Lavine, Incropera, DeWitt, 2011.

Homework
Two short homeworks will be assigned per week. Homework assignments will be posted on the class web page under "Homework." Homework is due each Tuesday and Thursday by 3 p.m. in the drop box outside Mehdi's office in Towne B12. 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 three homework grades will be dropped. The week following submission, graded homework will be returned and solutions will be posted on the web page.

Exams
Three midterm exams will be given. The midterms will be held in class. Midterm dates are tentatively scheduled for: 2/9, 3/15, 4/12.
The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday May 2nd, 12-2pm, Berger Auditorium in Skirkanich Hall.

Grading
The grading breakdown will be:

Homework: 20%

Midterms: 60% (20% apiece)

Final: 20%

Cheating
Students are expected to abide by Penn's Code of Academic Integrity. Working together on homework is allowed (and encouraged!), and students may use any resources at their disposal to help understand the material and complete the work. However, all work turned in must be the student's own. Each student must understand the work being turned in and must acknowledge any other students worked with and any sources (beyond the lecture notes and textbook) used in completing the work. Direct copying from another source is considered cheating. In instances of cheating, students will be given a zero and referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

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