Alternative Uses of Heat Transfer Enhancement
Paper by Peter Ellerby, Cal Gavin Ltd, from the March 1999 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering about the use of heat transfer enhancement as an aid in avoiding corrosion.
Boiling in Reduced Gravity
Description of experiments carried out by students from Texas A&M University with results for heat transfer coefficients at the onset of nucleate boiling and for film boiling and the critical heat flux.
Cooling Towers: Design and Operation Considerations
From Christopher M. A. Haslego, article about main types, theory, design and operation of cooling towers.
Correlations for Convective Heat Transfer
From your About.com Guide, recommended equations for calculation of heat transfer coefficients.
Dave's Conduction Helper
Introduction to the simple case of one-dimensional steady-state heat conduction by David Anderson.
Diffusion
Mechanics of diffusion and Fick's first and second law, chapter from an online text about visualizations in materials science at North Carolina State University.
Diffusion Processes
From Michael Karweit's Virtual Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, explore two-dimensional diffusion phenomena by configuring and running the Diffusion Simulator (Java applet).
Dimensionless Numbers
From Process Associates of America, definitions and forms-based calculations for many dimensionless numbers of importance in heat and mass transfer and fluid dynamics.
Fourier's Model of Heat Flow
Lecture notes by William Symes about Fourier's law of heat conduction.
Fundamentals of Heat Transfer
Tutorial by Regan Young covering the basic principles and modes of heat transfer.
Gas Scrubbing in Packed Beds
Mass transfer across the gas-liquid interface, mass transfer with chemical reaction, absorption of gas from a single bubble, handout from a chemical engineering lab at Princeton University.
Hall of Heat Transfer Pioneers
Profiles of Colburn, Fourier, Nusselt and other pioneers in the field of heat transfer.
Heat Conduction
From Michael Karweit's Virtual Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, Deduce the cross-sectional profile of a heated conductive bar based on its temperature (Java applet).
Heat Conduction 2D
From AOE Dept. at Virginia Tech, Java applets for numerical calculation of steady and unsteady heat conduction in 2D regions of any shape. Click 'Help' in the applets for the data format of the boundary points.
Heat Conduction Lab
From Nicklas Nordborg, numerical analysis of heat conduction problems with exercises using Excel spreadsheets.
How We Lose Heat to the Environment
Hypothermia and the modes of heat transfer from the human body to the environment, online or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version.
Making Decisions with Insulation
From Christopher M. A. Haslego, about insulation of pipes and other equipment: theory, economics, safety, and process conditions.
Theory of Thermography
From FLIR Systems, Inc., fundamentals of radiation: electromagnetic spectrum, blackbody radiation, Planck’s radiation law, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, and non-blackbody emitters.
What is Blackbody Radiation?
From Electro Optical Industries, Inc., introduction to the model of the blackbody and Planck's radiation law.