Thermal Engineering unit (ENG720)

Introduction

The unit develop students' fundamental grasp of the concepts related to heat transfer. These phenomena are ubiquitous in mechanical engineering so a good understanding of them is essential for students to confidently progress to the higher stages of learning and in their future engineering career. This unit builds on material presented in ENG212 Thermal and Fluid Engineering covering more advanced topics in energy transfer and conversion. This provides students a broad range of industrial engineering thermal systems, with an emphasis placed on distinguishing between energy quality and quantity.

Summary

Unit name	Thermal Engineering
Unit code	ENG720
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Sciences and Engineering School of Engineering
Discipline	Engineering
Coordinator	Professor Xiaolin Wang
Delivered By
Level	Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Explain heat transfer processes in a variety of practical engineering applications.
• Evaluate the convective heat transfer coefficients for a range of flows over internal and external surfaces
• Design an optimised heat exchanger by applying contemporary engineering tools and principles

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

KMA154

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

ENG311

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Lectures: 3 hours per week (1 x 2hr and 1 x 1hr), and 39 hr lectures in total. Tutorials: 1 hour per week and 12 hours in total. Practical: Three 2-hour sessions, one each in approx. weeks 5/6, 7/8 and 9/10 depending on the student numbers (the detailed schedule will be discussed in the class)
Assessment	Mid-semester test (10%)|Heat exchanger design (20%)|Lab demonstration/Practices (30%)|Invigilated exam (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required

Incropera FP and de Witt DP, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 8th edition, Wiley, 2017. (or previous and latest edition), AND Cengel, Y. A, and Boles, M. A., Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2019. (or previous and latest edition) These have been ordered for the bookshop, and these or earlier editions are available on reserve in the Library. An alternative text (with less material) is Cengel, Heat and Mass Transfer or a Cengel text combining Thermodynamics and Heat transfer.

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