BSEN 2240 - Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer

Basic principles of heat and mass transfer with special applications to biological and environmental systems.

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The prerequisite of this class is thermodynamics, and it builds off basic thermodynamic principles and into more specific areas like steady and transient state conduction, mass transfer, and generation and loss of heat transfer.

The beginning of the class started with the basics of conduction, convection, and radiation. From those basic equations we learned how to find more specific things like flow, diffusivity,heat loss, heat transfer coefficients, heat flux, and starting temp or time.

After expanding on the basics, there was more in depth equations and ideas for solving convective heat transfer by using the Biot number, Lumped Parameter Analysis, Nusselt Number, laminar and turbulent flow, and the Prandtl number. These equations allowed us to use the ideas of laminar and turbulent flow of other shapes, like pipes or plates, and apply them to these equations to find thermal diffusivity, convective heat transfer coefficient, rate of heat loss, boundary layer of thickness

The last portion of the class is all about mass transfer and radiation. I am pretty nervous about these portions because of the differences the radiation equations to the conduction and convection equations that I have used, and also the fact that the things we are calculating are wavelengths.

Overall, I was taught difficult concepts and equations that I know I will apply to classes in the future.