MECH&AE 231B
Radiation Heat Transfer
Description: Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 105D. Radiative properties of materials and radiative energy transfer. Emphasis on fundamental concepts, including energy levels and electromagnetic waves as well as analytical methods for calculating radiative properties and radiation transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media. Applications cover laser-material interactions in addition to traditional areas such as combustion and thermal insulation. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2025 - I really enjoyed this course. I'm passionate about radiation heat transfer so I admit I am biased. The lectures are very useful for the HW and exams, definitely attend! The lectures are also very well organized and clear, and Professor Ayyaswamy seems to genuinely care about our learning of the material and skills for the professional world as well. The quarter I took this course, there were only about 7 to 9 students, which I think was ideal for Professor Ayyaswamy's teaching style. Highly recommend this course if you are interested in heat transfer as applied to space technology, because radiation heat transfer is very important in space (of course).
Spring 2025 - I really enjoyed this course. I'm passionate about radiation heat transfer so I admit I am biased. The lectures are very useful for the HW and exams, definitely attend! The lectures are also very well organized and clear, and Professor Ayyaswamy seems to genuinely care about our learning of the material and skills for the professional world as well. The quarter I took this course, there were only about 7 to 9 students, which I think was ideal for Professor Ayyaswamy's teaching style. Highly recommend this course if you are interested in heat transfer as applied to space technology, because radiation heat transfer is very important in space (of course).
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This class was a lot of work: problem sets, case studies, project, but I learned a lot about radiation from these assignments. The project required many hours of effort and I felt that the topics were too open ended. Pilon often says a lot of things will happen but they never do.
This class was a lot of work: problem sets, case studies, project, but I learned a lot about radiation from these assignments. The project required many hours of effort and I felt that the topics were too open ended. Pilon often says a lot of things will happen but they never do.
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