This course offers a comprehensive treatment of Radiative heat transfer. The course starts with standard optics on Radiative transfer and radiant exchange between surfaces and introduces modern state-of-the-art topics including Radiative properties of gases and particles, P-Napproximation, the Monte Carlo method and the prediction of radiation transfer in absorbing,emitting, and scattering media.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: None
CORE/ELECTIVE: Elective
UG/PG: PG
PREREQUISITES: Heat Transfer
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: BHEL, Steel Industry, NTPC and other power companies
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Dr Ankit Bansal received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Radiative Heat Transfer. He has worked as Assistant Professor at IIT Mandi for two years from 2012-2014. For last three years he has been working as assistant professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of IIT Roorkee.He has taught courses on Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Heat Transfer,CFD etc. He has authored more than ten papers in reputed journals.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1 : Fundamentals of Thermal Radiation, Introduction, Basic Laws of Thermal Radiation, Introduction to Radiative Properties, Radiative Properties of Opaque Surfaces Week 2 : View Factors, Evaluation Methods, Monte Carlo method Week 3 : Radiative Exchange between Black surfaces, Radiative Exchange between Gray,Diffuse, Surfaces, Radiative Exchange between Non-Ideal Surfaces Week 4 : Equation of Radiative Transfer for participating media Week 5 : Solution Methods: Plane-Parallel Slab, Approximate Methods, Method of spherical harmonics and Discrete Ordinate Method. Week 6 : Zone method and applications Week 7 : Radiative Properties of Participating Media: Gas Properties, particle Properties Week 8 : Spectral Models: Wide band model, Narrow-band models, k-distribution models
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
M. F. Modest, Radiative Heat Transfer, 2nded., Academic Press, 2003. R. Siegel and J.R. Howell, Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, 2015 (Sixth Edition)
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exams: March 31 2019(Sunday). Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
