MECH&AE 231A

Convective Heat Transfer Theory

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Recommended: course 250A. Conservation equations for flow of real fluids. Analysis of heat transfer in laminar and turbulent, incompressible and compressible flows. Internal and external flows; free convection. Variable wall temperature; effects of variable fluid properties. Analogies among convective transfer processes.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites: courses 131A, 182B.

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MECH&AE 231A

MECH&AE 131AIntermediate Heat Transfer
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