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N170800: Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer (in English)
Fall 2010
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Catalog descriptions: Microscopic concepts and methodology in thermal science, including the
equilibrium statistics, Boltzmann transport equation, and nano/microscale heat
conduction and radiation, with applications in contemporary technologies.
Prerequisite: Heat Transfer or Thermodynamics
References:
Lecture Notes and Handouts
Z. M. Zhang, Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007.
(textbook, 華通書坊代理)
G. Chen, Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion, Oxford University Press,
New York, 2005. (華通書坊代理)
Instructor:
Yu-Bin Chen (陳玉彬), Assistant Professor
Room 91504, Tel. (06)275-7575#62119, ybchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Office hours: Friday 10:10 – 12:00 or by appointment.
Lecture notes: If there is any lecture note in power point format or homework, it will be posted
on the website of the class (http://moodle.ncku.edu.tw/) for download.
Class time:
Tuesday 09:10 – 11:00 and Wednesday 13:10 – 14:00
(Tuesday 10:10 – 11:00 and Wednesday 13:10 – 15:00, tentatively)
Location:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Room 91B04.
Class participation: Each student is expected to attend class on time with strong
interests in learning. You will loose points by skipping class while gain points by asking good
questions or initiate interesting discussions.
Homework: Please read the book examples and lecture notes carefully before doing
homework. There will be five homework assignments, due before the class as indicated on the
schedule page. Solutions will be distributed after the due date. The steps of solution should be
detail enough, logical, and clear; otherwise you will not receive full credit even if your answers
are correct. Discussion among classmates is encouraged; however, you are expected to solve the
problems independently. Homework grading will be largely based on effort and whether you
have used the procedures correctly, rather than the numbers. You are supposed to do all assigned
problems and will receive a penalty for each unsolved problem.
Term project: Every student is asked to do a term project independently with a written
report and an oral presentation at the end of the semester. An A4 page abstract is necessary in the
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middle of the semester for instructor’s review. The report must be written in English with ASME
format
(http://www.asme.org/Publications/ConfProceedings/Author/Author_Templates.cfm).
The number of report pages is expected to be more than 5 but less than 10. The presentation will
be held at the end of the semester and each presentation will take around 15 minutes with 3
minutes Q&A. Appropriate topics for term project will be announced with the first homework.
Grading method:
Class participation:
10
Homework:
40
(10 points for each homework)
Term project:
50
(15 extra points will be given to those present in English)
The actual score may vary slightly from the total points you gained from the class.
Academic Honesty: Academic integrity and honesty is essential to achieve high-quality
education and to keep the prestige of the institution. We will not tolerate any academic
misconduct, such as cheating. Cheating includes, but is not limited to: copying directly from
unauthorized source, such as friends, classmates or a solutions manual; allowing another person
to copy your work; signing another person's name or having another person sign your name on
an attendance sheet; taking a test or quiz in someone else's name, or having someone else take a
test or quiz in your name; or asking for regrade of a paper that has been altered from its original
form.
Tentative Schedule
No. Date/ Day Topic covered
1 09/14 T Microscale phenomena and nano-science
2 09/15 W Review of thermodynamics
3 09/21 T Macroscale Heat Transfer
 09/22 W International holiday
4 09/28 T Statistical thermodynamics
5 09/29 W Equilibrium distributions
6 10/05 T Kinetic theory of ideal gas
7 10/06 W Transport properties of ideal gas
8 10/12 T Thermal conductivities of solids
9 10/13 W Thermal conductivity of thin films
10 10/19 T Thermoelectricity and applications
11 10/20 W Hyperbolic thermal equation
12 10/26 T Two-step heating equations
13 10/27 W Boltzmann transport equation
14 11/02 T Ballistic-diffusion equation
15 11/03 W History of thermal radiation and Planck’s law
16 11/09 T Radiative properties of thin films and superlattices
Partial coherence and size effect on radiative
17 11/10 W
properties
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Distribution
Syllabus
Due
HW#1
HW#1
HW#2
HW#2
Abstract
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11/16
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11/17
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11/23
11/24
11/30
12/01
12/07
12/08
12/14
12/15
12/21
12/22
12/28
12/29
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01/04
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01/05
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01/11
01/12
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Gratings and microstructures
Numerical algorithms for obtaining radiative
properties
Coherent thermal emission
Photon tunneling and near-field radiative transfer
Spectroscopy
Radiation detectors
Near-field microscopy
Polaritons and surface waves
Transmission enhancement
Metamaterials
Fluctuational electrodynamics
Heat transfer between parallel plates
Heat transfer between parallel plates (II)
Microscale thermophotovoltaic systems
Unique radiative properties of periodic structures
and their applications (I)
Unique radiative properties of periodic structures
and their applications (II)
Presentation
Presentation
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HW#3
HW#3
HW#4
HW#4
Report