Curriculum Information

Thermodynamics

1. Definitions and fundamental concepts of thermodynamics

The concept of “system” and “surroundings”. The concept of “process”, “cycle”, “state” and “state equilibrium”. The concept of “internal energy” and “enthalpy”.

2. Nature of heat and work and energy transfer

Nature of heat. Determination Sensible and latent heat. Nature of work. Various forms of work.

3. Introduction to the First Law of thermodynamics:

Conservation of energy. Energy balance equations for non-flow and steady-flow systems.

4. Working fluids

Ideal gases. Steam and two-phase system.

5. Thermodynamics processes

Reversible processes: constant volume, constant pressure, constant temperature, polytropic, adiabatic. Work transfer in reversible non-flow processes. Work transfer in reversible steady-flow processes.

6. Various engineering applications of non-flow and steady-flow energy equations7. Unsteady-flow processes.

Fluid mechanics

1. Hydrostatics

Hydrostatic Pressure. Manometers. Hydrostatic forces on submerged plane surfaces.

2. Introduction to fluid in motion

Flow classification. Flow field. Lagrangian and Eulerian description of fluid flow. Effect of boundary on fluid flow. Laminar/Turbulent Flows; Reynolds Number.

3. Mass and energy conservation in fluid flow

Continuity of flow. Bernoulli’s equation and its applications.

4. Momentum analysis of flow systems

The momentum equation. Momentum analysis in two dimensional systems. Applications of the momentum equations.

5. Viscous flow in pipes

Laminar and turbulent velocity profiles in pipe flow. Loss of head in pipe systems. Extension of Bernoulli’s equation to general pipe flow problems. Pump characteristics and performances.

6. Dimensional analysis and similitude

Buckingham’s II-theorem. Arrangement of dimensionless groups. Dynamic similarity. Model testing.