Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Bachelor Mechatronics Fulltime
Type of degree:FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme
 Full-time
 Winter Semester 2025
  

Course unit titleHeat Transfer
Course unit code024506059011
Language of instructionEnglish
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Elective
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2025
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2025
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated3
Name of lecturer(s)Alexander MURR


Prerequisites and co-requisites

Engineering mathematics, physics, basics of thermodynamics

Course content
  • Basics of heat transfer
    • Overview and notation
    • Mechanisms
    • Relevant material coefficients
  • Heat conduction
    • Diffusion
    • Heat source/sink
    • Applications (insulated walls, …)
  • Convection
    • Fluid dynamic equations
    • Heat transfer coefficient
    • Applications (boundary layer, …)
  • Radiation
    • Absorption, transmission, reflection
    • Black body radiation
    • Applications (solar radiation, …)
Learning outcomes

The students will be able to

  • analyse, mathematically formulate and solve technical heat transfer problems.
  • Critically interpret the results and apply them to the solution of technical problems and use them for technical improvements and optimisations.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • Lecture
  • Exercise
  • Compulsory homework
Assessment methods and criteria
  • Homework
  • Written intermediate exam
  • Written final exam

Written examinations with handwritten formulary and calculator

Retaken examinations and repeat examinations are conducted orally

Comment

None

 

Recommended or required reading
  • Bergman, Theodore L. u.a. (2011): Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. 7th edition. Chichester: Wiley.
  • Yunus A. Cengel (2006): Heat and Mass Transfer. 3rd edition.McGraw-Hill
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face

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