MECH&AE 231A · MAE 231AConvective Heat Transfer Theory
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 131A, 182B.
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MECH&AE 231A
- MECH&AE 131AIntermediate Heat Transfer
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MECH&AE 182BMathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
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