Introduction to heat transfer – steady state heat conduction – transient heat conduction – introduc- tion to convective heat transfer – external forced convection – internal forced convection – natural/ free convection – introduction to boiling and condensation – heat exchangers – blackbody radiation and radiative properties – radiative exchange between surfaces.

• Bergman, T. L., Lavine, A. S., Incropera, F. P., and DeWitt, D. P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th ed., John Wiley (2011).

Data Book:


• Kothandaraman, C. P. and Subramanyan, S., Heat and Mass Transfer Data Book, 8th ed., New Age International Pub. (2014).

1. Holman, J. P., Heat Transfer, 10th ed., Tata McGraw-Hill (2010).

2. C¸engel, Y. A. and Ghajar, A. J., Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications, 5th ed., Tata McGraw-Hill (2014).

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: Importance of the heat transfer mechanism and its basic laws.

CO2: Understand and solve the steady state heat conduction.

CO3: Learn and analyse the transient heat conduction.

CO4: Need and importance of external and internal convective heat transfer processes.

CO5: Estimation of heat transfer coefficients of buoyancy assisted convection operations.

CO6: Evaluation of thermal performance of Heat exchangers.

CO7: Calculate the radiation heat transfer between black body surfaces.