AME 517 – Radiation
Heat Transfer – Fall 2009
Instructor:
Prof.
Paul D. Ronney
Office:
Olin Hall 430J
Phone: (213) 740-0490; FAX: (213) 740-8071
Email: ronney@usc.edu
Office
Hours: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Wednesdays, other times by appointment.
Lecture: 6:30
– 9:10 PM Thursdays, OHE 122
Final: 7:00
- 9:00 PM, Thursday December 10.
Web page: http://ronney.usc.edu/AME517F09/
Text:
Modest, M. F., ÒRadiative
Heat Transfer,Ó 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 2003 (ISBN-10: 0125031637; ISBN-13: 978-0125031639)
Text website (to download programs etc.):
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780125031639
Errata: http://www.mne.psu.edu/MFModest/mfm/book/errata2e.pdf
Grading:
Midterm
exam |
30% |
Final
exam |
40% |
Homework |
30% |
TENATIVE COURSE OUTLINE
Week |
Date |
Chapters |
HW# due |
Lecture Material |
1 |
8/27 |
1 |
|
Fundamentals: basic laws, characteristics of radiation
from surfaces, gases, particles |
2 |
9/3 |
4 |
|
View factors |
3 |
9/10 |
5 |
1 |
Radiative exchange
between gray surfaces |
4 |
9/17 |
5 |
|
Radiative exchange
between gray surfaces continued |
5 |
9/24 |
6, 7 |
2 |
Radiative exchange between
non-gray and non-ideal surfaces |
6 |
10/1 |
8 |
|
Combined surface
radiation with conduction & convection |
7 |
10/8 |
9 |
3 |
Equations of radiative
transfer in participating media |
8 |
10/15 |
10 |
|
Radiative properties of gases
|
9 |
10/22 |
10 |
4 |
MIDTERM EXAM – first half of class periodRadiative properties of
gases continued - second half of
class period (make up lecture, PDR will be on travel) |
10 |
10/29 |
11-12 |
|
Radiative properties of
particulate and semi-transparent media |
11 |
11/5 |
13 |
5 |
Exact solutions for 1D
gray media (make up lecture, PDR will be on travel) |
12 |
11/12 |
14 |
|
Approximate solutions
for 1D gray media |
13 |
11/19 |
15 |
6 |
Spherical harmonics
method of solution (PN method); Discrete Ordinates method of
solution (SN method) |
14 |
11/26 |
|
|
NO CLASS –
Thanksgiving day |
15 |
12/3 |
19 |
|
Treatments of nongray
extinction coefficients |
16 |
12/10 |
|
7 |
FINAL EXAM –
7-9 pm
|
The last homework
assignment will be due Tuesday 12/8 and returned Wednesday 12/9 at a review session
in preparation for the final exam Thursday 12/10.