Invited Lectures at Florianopolis

 

30 hour lectures on Heat Pipe Science and Technology

Organizer               : Dr. Sergio Colle,

  Professor

  Department of Mechanical Engineering,

  Federal University of Santa Catarina,

                          P.O. Box 476-CEP 88040-900

                          Floriaópolis (SC), Brazil

 

Venue                       : LABSOLAR (Auditorium: Ground Floor)

  (Actual schedule will be informed at a later date)

 

Time period           : June-July 2005 (Lecture time 24 hrs)

 

Audience                 : Graduate students (Total: 15)

 

Instructor              : Dr.-Ing. Sameer Khandekar

  Assistant Professor

  Department of Mechanical Engineering

  Indian Institute of Technology

  Kanpur (UP) 208016, India

  E-mail: samkhan@iitk.ac.in

  Web-site: www.sameerkhandekar.co.nr

 

v     INTRODUCTION (3 hours)

1.      Introduction to two-phase heat transfer technology

2.      Industrial applications of two-phase heat transfer

v     INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA AND PHASE TRANSITIONS (3 hours)

3.      Interfacial tension, wetting phenomenon and contact angles

4.      Transport effects, dynamic behavior of interfaces and phase stability

v     TWO PHASE FLOWS (4 hours)

5.      Introduction to two-phase flows

6.      Homogeneous flow model

7.      Separated flow model

8.      Two-phase flow instabilities

v     BOILING HEAT TERANSFER (4 hours)

9.      Introduction - Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation

10. Pool boiling/ Enhanced pool boiling

11.  Convective flow boiling and enhancement techniques

12.  Microscale flow boiling

v     CONDENSATION HEAT TRANSFER (2 hours)

13.  External and Internal condensation

14.  Dropwise and film condensation

v     CONVENTIONAL HEAT PIPES (4 hours)

15.  Introduction to heat pipes and thermosyphons

16.  Conventional heat pipe modeling techniques

v     PULSATING HEAT PIPES (4 hours)

17.  Introduction to pulsating heat pipes

18.  Experimental techniques/ Modeling and design aspects

v     In addition there will be an institute talk titled “Emerging Importance of Microscale Heat transfer”.