1. What do you mean by heat?

2. What is energy and what do you mean by energy transfer and transformation?
3. Tell me the significance and purpose of studying the heat transfer in
Mechanical Engg. domain?
4. How heat transfer takes place? What are the different modes of heat transfer?
5. Tell me the modes of heat transfer when ice cube is placed in the room.
6. What is steady state and unsteady state heat transfer?
7. Is there any heat storage inside the body in steady heat transfer?
8. Is there any heat storage inside the body in unsteady heat transfer?
9. What is the mechanism of heat transfer in conduction?
10.In solid metal what is mechanism of heat transfer takes place through
conduction?
11.In solid non-metal what is mechanism of heat transfer takes place through
conduction?
12.In liquid what is mechanism of heat transfer takes place through conduction?
13.In gas what is mechanism of heat transfer takes place through conduction?
14.What is the impact of temperature on the conduction mode of heat transfer in
case of metals?
15.What is the impact of temperature on the conduction mode of heat transfer in
case of non-metals?
16.What is the mechanism of heat transfer in convention?
17.Is there any medium is required for radiative heat transfer?
18.Does a body emits radiation at -10℃ ?
19.Which mode of heat transfer takes place in vacuum?
20.In furnace which mode of heat transfer mode is dominating?
21.Which method of heat transfer is dominant in a cup of tea?
22.What are different laws governing heat transfer?
23.What are the assumptions taken in Fourier’s law of conduction?
24.State Fourier’s law of heat conduction? Write the expression? What do you
mean by negative sign?
25.What are the various assumptions taken in Fourier Law of heat conduction?
26.Suppose you have two walls in series, then write the heat transfer equation?
27.What is thermal conductivity?
28.What do you mean by heat flux?
29.What is the meaning of thermophysical property of material?
30.Is the thermal conductivity a thermophysical property?
31.What is temperature gradient in the conduction heat transfer?
32.Under what condition it remains constant?
33.Why is temperature gradient not constant in case of cylinder?
34.Under condition it varies in case of plane slab?
35.Write an expression for the thermal resistance of a cylinder.
36.Write an expression for the thermal resistance of a sphere.
37.What is the thermal diffusivity?
38.What is the difference between thermal diffusivity and kinematic viscosity?
39.What are fins? What are its applications?
40.In IC engine what type of fins are used?
41.If radius of electric wire is more than critical radius of insulation then
comment whether addition of insulation is beneficial or not?
42.If radius of electric wire is less than critical radius of insulation then comments
whether addition of insulation is beneficial or not?
43.In comparison of thick, short and thin, long fins, which type of fin is suitable
for IC engine?
44.What do you mean by lumped parameter analysis?
45.What do you mean by Biot Number?
46.What do you mean by characteristic dimension?
47.Suppose you have water inside the freezer to convert water in to ice then the
cooling rate will be maximum when the water temperature is 60 degrees
centigrade or 10 degrees centigrade.
48.What is Fourier number.
49.What is heat exchanger?
50.What are the assumptions are taken for heat exchanger analysis?
51.As per thermodynamics, what is taken our system and surrounding in this
analysis?
52.What are the types of heat exchanger?
53.Draw the temperature profile with length of parallel flow and counter flow?
54.How the temperature profile gets changed when boiling and condensation take
places in the system?
55.Which heat exchanger will be preferred when there is a space limitation?
56.What is LMTD and how it is different from AMTD?
57.In which heat exchanger the effectiveness is more and why?
58.What is fouling in heat exchanger and what is fouling factor?
59.What are the reasons behind fouling?
60.What is overall heat transfer coefficient? What are its unit and how do
calculate it in case of cylinder?
61.What is forced and free convection? Give an example of both.
62.How to check which one dominates between forced and free convection?
63.What are the different dimensionless number associated with the heat transfer?
64.What is the physical signifance of Nusselt Number?
65.What is the relation between Nusselt number, Prandtl number and Reynold’s
number?
66.What is Grashoff’s number?
67.What is the need of studying the Reynold’s Analogy?
68.What are the different fluid properties on which convective heat transfer
strongly depends?
69.If you have a bucket of water and heated with emulsion rod then what type of
heat transfer takes place?
70.If you have a bucket of water and heated with emulsion rod then water get
heated faster with stirring or without stirring?
71.Why do you feel better when traveling in a bike than standing still in summer?
72.If we place a cold drink in a room, can you explain the physical mechanism of
warming up of cold drink by natural convection?
73.Explain radiation heat transfer? How it is different from conduction and
convection?
74.Is radiation a volumetric or a surface phenomenon? Give examples?
75.What do you mean by black and gray body?
76.Can white paper be considered as black body? If yes than why?
77.Can you plot and explain the difference between emissivity and emissive
power of black and grey body?
78.Can you discuss heat transfer mechanism involved in a microwave oven? How
it is different from a conventional oven?
79.What do you mean by reflectivity, absorptivity and transmissivity?
80.What do you mean by Radiosity?
81.What is Stefan Boltzmann law?
82.What is Planck’s law of radiation?
83.What is Kirchhoff’s law of radiation?
84.What is Wien’s displacement law?
85.What are reciprocity rules for determination of shape factor?
86.What are the summation rules for determination of shape factor?
87.Why it is generally recommended to cool down after a heavy exercise period?
Explain it based upon the principles of heat transfer?
88.We generally see that people start shivering in cold environment? Can you tell
the physical significance of shivering based on heat transfer?
89.What is the logic behind assumption of adiabatic fin tip while analysing fins?
90.How do clothes dry in winter?
91.How do clothes dry in summer?
92.Draw the temperature variations of fluid flow in pipe:
a. Constant wall temperature heating
b. Constant heat flux to the wall
93.Consider a pyramid whose base is square and its side surfaces are isosceles
triangle. How many view factors will be there from the base of the pyramid?
94.Write the thermal resistance equation for radiative heat transfer between two
parallel flat plate?
95.What is the meaning of space and surface resistance in case of radiation heat
transfer?
96.Suppose if I placed a radiation shield in between the two flat plates, then how
many resistances will be there in the analysis?
97.Does the space resistance depend upon temperature?
98.Tell me the parameters on which surface and space resistance depends upon?
99.How thickness of HBL and TBL is decided with the Prandtl Number?
100. Why a car feels so hot from inside compared to outside when parked in
summer condition?