Advanced Heat Transfer

Building on the undergrad heat transfer course, this one pushes you into the analytical machinery behind the three transport modes — separation of variables for 2D conduction, boundary layer theory for convection, and view factor algebra for radiation — rather than just plugging into correlations. Expect problem sets heavy on PDEs, similarity solutions, and integral methods, punctuated by two quizzes, a midterm, and a final, with Özışık and Bejan as the standard references. It's a senior-level technical elective that matters if you're heading toward thermal-fluids design, combustion, or graduate work, since it gives you the mathematical fluency to actually derive the correlations everyone else memorizes.