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❤️‍🔥Heat and Mass Transfer
Key Terms

313 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Heat and Mass Transfer exam

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σ (Stefan-Boltzmann constant)

A

Activated carbon
Active solar system
Actual heat transfer rate
Adaptive mesh refinement
Adiabatic condition
Adjoint methods
Adsorption isotherm
Aerodynamics
Aerosol transport
Air Purification
Airflow rate
Ambient Temperature
Amine Solvents
Animal cooling mechanisms
Anion Exchange
Anisotropic diffusion

B

Behavioral thermoregulation
Bessel Functions
Biochemical reactors
Biot Number
Blasius Solution
Boundary condition implementation
Boundary Conditions
Boundary layer theory
Boundary Layer Turbulence
Boussinesq Approximation
Brownian motion
Btu/h·ft·°f
Bubble Point
Building Insulation
Building ventilation
Bulk diffusion

C

Capillary Action
Cation Exchange
Ceramic membranes
Characteristic Diffusion Time
Chilton-Colburn Analogy
Churchill-Bernstein Correlation
Circular duct
Closed heat pipe
Coffee cooling
Collector efficiency
Complementary Error Function
Concentrating solar collectors
Concentration Polarization
Concentration Profile
Condenser
Conduction Mode
Conductive heat flux
Conductive Heat Transfer Rate
Constant diffusivity
Constant rate period
Constitutive Parameters
Contact Angle
Convection at the microscale
Convective Diffusion
Convective drying
Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient
Convergence criteria
Cooling Towers

D

Darcy-Weisbach Equation
Dew Point
Diffusion coefficient
Diffusion in solids
Diffusive flux
Dimensionless Analysis
Direct Normal Irradiance
Dirichlet Boundary Condition
Dirichlet Condition
Distillation Columns
Distillation efficiency
Distribution coefficient
Dittus-Boelter Correlation
Double pipe heat exchanger