Fluids/Heat Transfer

Catalog description

This course covers fluid mechanics and heat transfer topics that the Plastic Engineering Science students are most likely to need in their professional lives. Students can gain a basic understanding of energy and energy interactions, various mechanisms of heat transfer, and fundamentals of fluid flow. The course was designed to present the basic principles of fluid mechanics and heat transfer as well as illustrate numerous and diverse real-world engineering examples to give students a feel for how thermal-fluid sciences are applied in engineering practice. The course was also designed to develop an intuitive understanding of thermal-fluid sciences by emphasizing the physics and physical arguments. Such a course can also instill in students the confidence and the background to do further reading of their own and to be able to communicate effectively with specialists in thermal-fluid sciences.