Course Title: Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering
Course Attribute: Professional foundation courses
Hours/credits: 60 hours/3 credits
Pre-courses: Advanced Mathematics and General Physics
Purpose and Requirements:
Under the premise of understanding the fundaments of thermodynamics (the first Law and Second Law), the Concepts from the Fluid Mechanics (principles of incompressible and compressible flows, and fully considerations about Heat Transfer (conduction, convention, radiation),
the course provides the introduction and description about the general concepts of thermal engineering and various energy conversion systems. It is hope that undergraduate students have a comprehensive grasp towards fundamentals of the practice engineering. At the same times, the course presents the developmental tendency of thermal engineering initially for the future.
Course summary:
Chapter 1 Introduction on fundamental concepts on general Thermal Engineering
1—1 Reviews on Contributions with Thermal Engineering from Scientists
1—1—1 Retrospection with Important Scientists of Engineering Thermodynamics
1—1—2 Retrospection with Important Scientists of fluid dynamics
1—1—3 Retrospection with Important Scientists of Heat Transfer
1—2 Deduction with the coupled relations between the first law and second law of thermodynamics
1—2—1 A New Statement of the second law of thermodynamics
1—2—2 Deduction on coupled results combining the two laws
1—3 Extraction with Available Energy of Thermal Engineering and Classification with Irreversible losses
1-3 Concepts about lost available work
1—3—1 Thermodynamic Analysis on the General Cycles of Heat Engines
1—3—2 Thermodynamic Analysis on the General Cycles of
Refrigeration Systems
1—3—2 Thermodynamic Analysis on the General Cycles of
Heat Pump
1—3—4 Thermodynamic Analysis on Non-flow Processes
1—3—5 Thermodynamic Analysis on Steady Flow Processes
1—3—6 Thermodynamic Analysis on Processes of Heat Transfer
1—4 Analysis on the Modern Exergy, Exergoeconomic, Exergoenvironmental
1—4—1 Analysis on the Modern Exergy
1—4—2 Exergoeconomic
1—4—3 Exergoenvironmental
1—5 Unsteady Analysis on Characteristics of one-dimension in Internal Flow
1—5—1 Unsteady Analysis on Behavior in Internal Flow
1—5—2 Deduction on General One-dimensional Flow inside Tube
1—6 fundamentals introduction of three Heat Transfer (Conduction, Convection, Radiation)
Chapter 2 Considerations from Thermal Engineering on Various Typical Thermal Cycles
2—1 Characteristic of Carnot Cycle
2—2 Characteristic of Otto Cycle
2—3 Characteristic of Brayton Cycle
2—4 Characteristic of Rankine Cycle
2—5 Characteristic of Stirling Cycle
2—6 Characteristic of Diesel cycle
2—7 Main Features of Irreversible Cycles
2—8 Characteristic of Finite Time Thermodynamic Cycle
2—8 Fundamentals of The Combined Cycle
Chapter 3 Turbines from Views of Thermal Engineering
3—1 Comparative Analysis between Ideal Cycle and Real Cycle
3—2 Thermodynamic Analysis on the Intercooler, Reheater, Recuperation
3—3 Combination analysis about both Maximum Efficiency and Entropy Generation Minimization
3—4 Various Typical Models
3—5 Cycle Efficiency with Turbine Cooling
3—6 Fundamentals on Efficiency of an integral Open Cycle
Chapter 4 Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering on the Aircraft Propulsion
4—1 Characteristic of Aircraft Propulsive Systems from the views of thermodynamic Cycles
4—2 Thermal Efficiency to both Inlets and Nozzles
4—3 Characteristic of Thermodynamic System related to Simple Real Gas Turbine Engines
4—4 Fundamental Characteristic with Advanced Cycles of aircraft engine
Chapter 5 Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering with Energy Storage Engineering
5—1 full life-cycle Thermal Analysis on the processes of Energy storage
5—2 EGM (Entropy Generation Minimization ) on the processes of Energy storage
5—3 Thermodynamic Analysis about Heat storage, Cooling Storage, latent heat of vaporization
5—4 Thermal Engineering Analysis on Processes of Energy Storage with Centrifugal Compression devices
Chapter 6 Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering among Solar Energy Engineering
6—1 Thermal Analysis on Processes of Solar Radiation
6—2 Thermodynamic Comparison to Processes of Solar Radiation
6—3 Analysis on Irreversible Factors in Processes of Utilization of Solar Energy
6—4 Thermal Analysis to Heat Transfer related Heat Radiation
6—5 Capacity of Maximum Available Work in Processes of Utilization of Solar Energy
Chapter 7 Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering Toward the Utilization of Wind Energy Engineering
7—1 Comparative Analysis between The Utilization of Wind Energy Engineering and Bionics is in fluid mechanics
7—2 Thermal Analysis to The Utilization of Wind Energy Engineering
7—3 Irreversible Analysis on Factors in Processes the Utilization of Wind Energy
7—4 association within Heat Pump and Absorbing Refrigeration in The Utilization of Wind Energy
7—5 re-considerations on Discontinuous energy during the Utilization of Wind Energy
Chapter 8 Thermal Engineering of Combustion Processes
8—1 Extension of Equilibrium Theory Among Combustion Processes
8—1—1 Relations between Combustion theory and Chemical reactions
8—1—2 Chemical Affinity with Thermal Engineering of Combustion Processes
8—1—3 The Le Chatelier—Braun Principle
8—1—4 Ideal Mixing Processes Among Combustion
8—1—5 Irreversible Chemical Reactions of Analysis About Combustion Reaction
8—1—6 Thermodynamics Analysis on Combustion Stability
8—2 Control equations of Thermal Engineering during combustion Processes
8—3 Ignition temperature , Extinguishing limit ,Adiabatic Flame Temperature ,The Combustion Chemical Equilibrium Constants
8—4 Analysis on The Characteristics of Flame propagation during Combustion Processes
Chapter 9 Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering within Processes of Refrigeration Engineering
9—1 Thermodynamic Features of Various Typical Processes of Refrigeration
9—2 Thermal Characteristics with cryogenic engineering
9—3 Phase change refrigeration and direct expansion refrigeration
Chapter 10 General Principles of Heat Exchanger related Thermal Engineering
10—1 Thermal Analysis toward sorts of Heat Exchangers
10—2 Thermal Analysis of Counterflow Heat Exchanger
10—3 Thermal Synthesis between Area Constraint and Volume Constraint
10—4 Thermal Analysis to Heat Exchangers under the conditions of exergoeconomic environment
Chapter 11 Fundamental Considerations about Modern Thermodynamics
11—1 Endogenous Irreversible Factors
11—2 Exogenous Irreversible Factors
11—3 Avoidable Irreversible Factors
11—4 Unavoidable Irreversible Factors
11—5 Mexogenous Irreversible Factors
11—6 Distinctions between Dissipative Thermal Process and Non-dissipative Thermal Process
11—7 The Considerations about Irreversible Thermodynamics
Chapter 12 Fundamental Understanding toward Modern Internal Flow
12—1 Features related internal flows
12—2 Interconnections between Aero-Thermodynamics and Aerodynamic acoustics
12—3 Distinctions between Adverse Pressure Gradient and Favorable Pressure Gradient
12—4 Understanding on Both Principle of Shock Wave Pressurization and Principle of Unsteady Vortex Lift
Teacher's Profile:John D. Anderson, JR, “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-07-001679-8, 199
Frank P. Incropera and David P. DeWitt, “Fundamentals of Heat Transfer and Mass Transfer”, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN 0-471-30460-3, 1996.
Michael J. Moran and Howard N. Shapiro, “Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics”, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN 0-471-27471-2, 2004.
