Fundamentals of Convective Heat Transfer
NPTEL Live Sessions (Jul-Nov 2025)
Durga Prasad Pydi
About Course
Convective heat transfer is one of the most important areas of engineering sciences. It is major mode of heat transfer during flowing fluid and it is the most common mode of heat transfer used in industry. This course will cover the preliminary concepts, forced convection and natural convection for external flows and internal flows, turbulent flows and phase change heat transfer. Numerical solution of the governing equations will also be covered. This course is more analytical. The course will help faculty members, students and researchers in the field to get indepth concepts in convective heat transfer.
Course can be accessed online on Swayam Portal
Intended Audience
- Postgraduate and undergraduate students of Mechanical Engineering and similar branches
- Faculty members associated with Mechanical Engineering
- Practicing engineers associated with fluid and thermal industries
Prerequisites
- Fundamental knowledge of Mathematics, Heat Conduction and Fluid Mechanics
Books and References
- Biswas, G., Dalal, A., and Dhir, V. K., “Fundamentals of Convective Heat Transfer”, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
- Burmister, L. C., “Convective Heat Transfer”, Wiley India, 2015
- Kays, W. M., Crawford, M.E., Weigand, B., “Convective Heat and Mass Transfer”, Mcgraw-Hill, 2004
- Bejan, A., “Convective Heat Transfer”, Wiley, 2006
About Instructor
Prof. Amaresh Dalal 
is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2009 and he was Post-doctoral Research Associate at Purdue University from Sep 2008 - Dec 2009. He has research interests in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Finite Volume Methods and Unstructured Grid Techniques, Multiphase Flows. Dr. Dalal is now profoundly involved in developing a general purpose, versatile and robust computational fluid dynamics solver over hybrid unstructured grid which can solve a wide range of real-life fluid flow, heat transfer, and problems involving transport phenomena over complex geometries. He received Prof KN Seetharamu Medal and Prize for the Best Young Researcher in Heat Transfer-2017 from Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer
About Me
I am pursuing my PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, under the guidance of Dr Advaith Sankar. My research interest falls in the artificial intelligence-assisted thermal management of buildings.
The recorded sessions can be found on my YouTube Channel. In case of queries, please contact me through email.
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