MAE 336: Heat Transfer

Professor: Dr. Matthew Burge Professor: Dr. Joseph Mollendorf

E-mail: mburge@buffalo.edu E-mail: molendrf@buffalo.edu
Office Hours: Monday 1:30 – 2:30pm Office Hours: Monday Wednesday Friday
Wednesday 6:00 – 7:00pm 11:00 – 12:30pm
Teaching Assistant: Azadeh Sohrabi Teaching Assistant: Afsoun R. Falavarjani
E-mail: azadehso@buffalo.edu E-mail: afsounra@buffalo.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00 – 12:00pm Office Hours: Monday 4:00 – 7:00pm
Wednesday 12:30 – 3:30pm Tuesday 9:00 – 12:00pm
UG TA: Amy Faville UG TA: Niklas Sanfilippo
E-mail: amyfavil@buffalo.edu E-mail: niklassa@buffalo.edu
Office Hours: Monday 4:00 – 5:30pm Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00 – 6:00pm
Thursday 12:30 – 2:00pm Thursday 4:00 – 6:00pm
Friday 2:00 – 3:00pm

Spring 2021 ONLINE

Course Meeting Days, Times, and Locations

This course is purely online. There will be no formal in-person or synchronous lectures.
Content will be pre-recorded and made available on the course website. Content may be
watched at any time, but assignments corresponding to the content will need to be completed
according to their due dates. You may choose to attend office hours as you like.

Course website: https://ublearns.buffalo.edu/

http://www.zoom.com
UBlearns will be used for online distribution of course materials and information,
announcements, lecture notes, and grades. Zoom will be used to interface between
students and instructors during office hours and exams.

Course Description
Introduces the transport of heat by conduction, convection, and radiation. Topics include
transient and steady-state, one- and multidimensional heat conduction (treated both analytically
and numerically); single-phase, laminar and turbulent, and forced and natural convection both
within ducts and on external surfaces (dimensional analysis and empirical correlations); two-

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 phase transport (boiling and condensation); radiative properties of materials and analysis of
radiative heat transfer in enclosures; and analysis of heat exchangers.

Prerequisites: MAE204, approved Mechanical/Aerospace majors only.

Course Requirements
Requirement Quantity Material Covered Date
Homework 10 Variable; related to material covered Due weekly, with
assignments within lecture, see schedule some exceptions
Project 1 Chapters 1 – 13 Week 12
Exams 3 Chapters 1 – 4 Week 6
Chapters 6 – 11 Week 11
Chapters 1 – 13 Week 15

Course Learning Outcomes: Having completed this course, students will be able to:
Course Learning Outcome Program Assessment
Outcomes* Methods
determine the temperature distribution and heat transfer rate in a system. 1 Homework, Exams 1-3
solve first order differential equations by applying boundary conditions. 1, 7 Homework, Exams 1-3
perform energy balances on control surfaces using multiple modes of heat 1 Homework, Exams 1-3
transfer including conduction, convection and radiation.
perform finite difference heat transfer analysis. 1 Homework, Exam 1
determine heat transfer coefficients for radiation and convection. 1, 7 Homework, Exams 2-3,
Project
investigate enhancing heat transfer through geometric configurations. 1, 7 Homework, Exams 1-3,
Project
*
The Student Outcomes from the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET have been
adopted, see http://www.abet.org/

Program Outcome Support

0: not covered, 1: introduced, 2: practiced, 3: mastered
 

Program Outcome 1 7
Support Level 3 1

Textbook: Bergman, Lavine, Incropera, and DeWitt, Introduction to Heat Transfer, 6ed.
John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Topics covered
 

Heat Diffusion Conduction Thermal Resistance

Shape Factor Transient Heat Transfer Forced Convection
Natural Convection Heat Exchangers Radiation

Grading Policy: Your final grade will be based on your performance, as follows:

Homework: 25%
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Exam 1: 20% A 94100 B 8486.9 C 7476.9 D 6466.9
Exam 2: 20% A 9093.9 B 8083.9 C 7073.9 F < 64.0
Project: 10% B+ 8789.9 C+ 7779.9 D+ 6769.9
Final Exam: 25%

Notes:
The grade values required to earn a given grade may be lowered at the discretion of the Instructor; they
will not be raised. In certain cases, students may be eligible to receive a temporary incomplete (‘I’)
grade. A grade of incomplete (‘I’) indicates that additional course work is required to fulfill the
requirements of a given course. Students may only be given an ‘I’ grade if they have a passing average in
coursework that has been completed and have well-defined parameters to complete the course
requirements that could result in a grade better than the default grade. An ‘I’ grade may not be assigned to
a student who did not attend the course. Detailed information is available from the Undergraduate Course
Catalog, https://catalog.buffalo.edu/policies/explanation.html.

Expectation of Students:
Due to the need to switch to distance learning both students and the professor need to make reasonable
efforts to communicate regularly. As such, the following is expected of the students:

 Notes and lecture videos will be posted on UBlearns. You are expected to read/watch these on
your own before attending online office hours. Office hours are not there to teach you the
material, but to answer pointed questions regarding the homework or the lectures.
 You will be courteous to those around you by not holding external physical conversations, or by
muting your microphone while others with a question are asking during online meetings.
 You will communicate using only your UB provided e-mail.
 You will check your UB provided e-mail at least twice daily and respond to e-mails sent directly
to you within 24 hours.
 You will use your UB provided e-mail account to be recognized by the online software for web
conferencing using Zoom.
 You are required to be on Zoom (with your camera on and microphone off) during exams.

Homework: Assignments will be posted on UBLearns and typically due the following week. You will
submit your homework through UBLearns (see policies below regarding online submissions and late
homework). Assignments will typically consist of four questions that require analytic solutions. Point
values for each problem will be adjusted to reflect the difficulty of the problem. Homework is to be done
individually. Group submissions are not allowed. Homework submissions should be of professional
quality, and follow the methodology detailed in Section 1.5 on pages 38 – 39. You will be required to use
software (e.g. Excel, Matlab) to fit curves, plot trends, and solve linear systems of equations.
Calculations performed in Matlab should be displayed using the “Publish” function to export your
code/outputs/graphs into a PDF. Graphs should be of professional quality and include title, axis labels
with units, legend, equations of trend-lines and be scaled to display the interesting parts of the trend.

Online Homework Submissions

Each problem solution of an assignment needs to be scanned in and saved to a single file. This file must
be in .pdf, .doc or .docx format. You may take high resolution images with your cell phone and convert
them to pdf (free apps like CamScanner or Google Docs are great for this), or if needed, paste them in a
word document. Multiple pages are allowed in a single electronic file. Each question should be submitted

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as an independent file, i.e. you will submit one file for each question assigned. Each problem submission
will be uploaded into a corresponding location on UBLearns and should adhere to the filename format:

‘LastName_AssignmentType_AssignmentNumber_QuestionNumber.pdf” (e.g. Jones_HW3_Q2.pdf”)

Homework of poor quality or incorrect file extension will be subject to penalty or deemed
unacceptable and not graded.

Late Policies: Converting your written work into electronic format takes time. Uploading each problem
takes time. Late assignments will not be accepted. You should plan for the time needed to submit
your work. Assignments are typically due at 11:59pm of a specified day. At 12:00am (one minute later),
you will no longer be able to submit your homework. You are expected to verify your uploaded work is
viewable/not corrupt immediately after submission. Any issues with the uploading should be reported to
me before the homework deadline. This is the only way and time I will consider accepting homework
submitted through e-mail.

What if I have trouble with the homework?

E-mail me and I’ll try to point you in the right direction. I know that most of you will collaborate with
your colleagues, however, the learning is in the doing. Nobody on this planet learns from copying
somebody else’s work, no matter how clear or correct it is. Every part of every problem that you let
somebody else do for you is something that you are deciding that you just don’t want to learn.

Project: A small project will be distributed in the second half of the semester that will require a more
complicated analysis. Details regarding the project will be provided during the semester.

Examinations
There will be two (2) evening exams and a comprehensive final exam during finals week. If you wish to
appeal a grade, you have one (1) week after the examination has been returned to follow such action.

NOTE: You will need a functioning video device to take the exam. We will require that you join a zoom
meeting and maintain a video presence throughout the exam. It is your responsibility to ensure that the
device can maintain a connection (battery levels …). You will also need to upload your work, this can
be done just like with the written homework.

During exams, if you have a question, you may type us a private message in Zoom, and we will respond
in a message or suggest to move to a breakout room for further discussion.

If you miss an exam (or know you will miss an exam), you will need to provide sufficient evidence or
verification. The only valid excuses permitted for a make-up exam are a documented medical/family
emergency (paper documentation only, no e-mail) or conflict with another course (with documentation).
You are expected to communicate with us BEFORE there is a conflict with taking an exam.

Exam Schedule:
The exams are open note/book, but as a study method, you should bring a calculator and a single piece of
paper with equations/notes written on it (front and back) to each midterm exam and a total of three (3)
pages for the final exam. This is not required, but condensing your knowledge of a few topics onto this
one page helps you prioritize and organize the most important equations and processes.

o Exam #1: March 11th 6:00 – 8:30 pm EST Chapters 1 – 4 UBLEARNS

o Exam #2: April 15th 6:00 – 8:30 pm EST Chapters 6 – 11 UBLEARNS

o Final Exam: May 10th 7:15 – 10:15 pm EST Chapters 1 – 13 UBLEARNS

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Course Schedule (subject to change):

Week 1: Modes of Heat Transfer (Chap 1)

Week 2: Heat Diffusion Equation (Chap 2)
Week 3: Thermal Resistance & Extended Surfaces (Chap 3)
Week 4: Shape Factor & Finite Difference Method (Chap 4)
Week 5: Review
Week 6: Exam 1 – March 11th 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Week 7: External Forced Convection (Chap 6 – 7)
Week 8: Internal Forced Convection (Chap 8)
Week 9: Natural/Free Convection (Chap 9) & Phase Change (Chap 10)
Week 10: Heat Exchangers (Chap 11)
Week 11: Exam 2 – April 15th 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Week 12: Transient Heat Transfer (Chap 5)
Week 13: Radiation Exchange (Chap 12) & View Factors (Chap 13)
Week 14: Review & Project Due
Week 15: Final Exam – May 10th 7:15pm – 10:15pm

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Intellectual Property
All notes, PowerPoint presentations, videos, figures, homework assignments, and examinations are my
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