Thermal Engineering& Advanced Heat Transfer

Pre-requisites: ME 471

Advanced heat transfer: unsteady conduction, analytical methods, graphical and numerical methods, electrical analogue circuits. Energy transfer with change of phase, iterative processes in combined modes. Solar Energy: nature of solar radiation, direct, diffuse and reflected irradiance, ephemeris transit, equation of time. Solar flux, solar collectors, applications of solar energy and prospects. Refrigeration and air-conditioning ‘air refrigerating cycles, common refrigerants, complex vapour-compression systems, binary systems.