ADVANCED HEAT TRANSFER

List of Topics
Thermal & Solar Radiation
1. Technical blackbody of small and large active area. Design and calibration.
2. Infrared radiators. Types and methods of modeling.
3. Heat transfer from gas and porous burners.
4. Modeling of solar irradiation on arbitrary located surface.
Enhancement of Heat Transfer
5. Enhancement of heat transfer using nano-fluids.
6. Cooling of surfaces with gas or liquid jets.
7. Application of porous media in enhancement of heat transfer.
8. Simultaneous heat and mass transfer during cooling by ablation
9. Transpiration cooling
10. Spreading thermal resistance and its applications.
11. Methods of cooling of blades of gas turbines
12. Analysis of heat transfer by radiation and convection in an electrical spiral surrounded
by semi-transparent quartz screens. Enhancement of radiation share
Microscale Heat Transfer
13. Heat transfer in micro-scale.
14. Heat transfer in thin films.
15. Heat transfer in micro heat exchangers
Environmental Heat Transfer
16. Heat transfer in atmosphere.
17. Heat transfer in open water reservoirs (lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, swimming pools).
18. Heat transfer in soil.
Thermal Insulations
19. Heat transfer in vacuum thermal insulations
20. Heat transfer in space suits.
21. Multi-layer insulations and their thermodynamic optimization.
22. Aging of thermal insulations
Heat Transfer in Buildings
23. Using solar energy to air-conditioning of buildings.
24. Application of PCMs in building envelopes.
25. Heat transfer in and from human body. Thermal comfort.
26. Heat transfer through transparent building envelopes (windows).
27. Ventilation of buildings and heat losses due to ventilation and air infiltration.
Heat Exchangers
28. Analysis of heat transfer in geothermal probes.
29. Evaporation cooling in cooling towers.
30. Heat transfer in boilers role of ash deposits.
31. Thermodynamic optimization of a simple heat exchanger.
Energy Storage
 32. Accumulation of sensible heat in power engineering
33. Accumulation of solar energy using chemical reactions.
34. Accumulation of thermal energy in phase change materials (PCM).
Heat Transfer in Electronic and Lighting Equipment
35. Cooling of electronic equipment
36. Cooling of computers.
37. Methods of cooling of lighting equipment.
38. Air-conditioning of electrical vehicles.
Other Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow Applications
39. Analysis of icing (frosting) of heat transfer surfaces.
40. Comparison of different turbulence models for flow in a pipe.
41. Methods of food freezing role of heat transfer.

Please select one topic from the list presented above and send it to me by email. Maximum two
student working together can choose a separate topic. When you select the topic a short summary
of the required contents of the project will be send to you together with a problem to be solved.
The whole project can be either presented during the classes (if the time allows for it) or if you do
not manage to present it to be send to me by the end of semester (30th January).