This database is being written as a companion to the course material. Its primary goal is to communicate the relationship between topics, ideas, and definitions. It does so by using an excessive amount of links.
When writing new pages I generally link to every other idea related to it and come back to it later, if you encounter a page that only contains links I encourage you to click around and look at the other pages. I will likely come back and update that page at a later date.
I make no claims about the accuracy of this database.
Overview provides a course overview in the form of a flow chart. Problem approach (currently incomplete) is a flow chart that describes how to approach a heat transfer problem.
Heat Transfer is the study of the flow of energy between objects of different temperatures. The methods used in this field also model mass transfer.
There are 3 main ways heat is transferred between objects, those are conduction, convection, and radiation.
Heat transfer is measured in terms of heat transfer rate and heat flux. If your object generates heat (like nuclear fuel) you'll use volumetric heat generation.
Much like thermodynamics everything in heat transfer needs to be balanced, energy-balance is an important part of this.
Thermal circuits is an analogy drawn between electrical theory and heat transfer and while it works a lot of time it unfortunately doesn't work all the time.
There are numerous methods to solve a heat transfer problem, problem-approach goes into detail.
The heat diffusion equation is an extremely useful equation and is the basis for many other methods.
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Calculating the convection heat transfer coefficient can be very involved, it is necessary to know information about the fluid flow and the boundary layer.