MECH&AE 131A · MAE 131AIntermediate Heat Transfer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Steady conduction: two-sided, two-ended, tapered, and circular fins; buried cylinders, thick fins. Transient conduction: slabs, cylinders, products. Convection: transpiration, laminar pipe flow, film condensation, boundary layers, dimensional analysis, working correlation, surface radiation. Two-stream heat exchangers. Elements of thermal design.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses M20 (or Civil Engineering M20 or Computer Science 31), 82, 105D.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.80 · from text- · "COM SCI 82" is not in this catalog version
- · "COM SCI 105D" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 131A
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
3 direct requisites. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 131A
- MECH&AE 231AConvective Heat Transfer Theory
- MECH&AE 231CPhase Change Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.