Sessional - 100 100 Final - Total - 100 100
Sessional - 100 100 Final - Total - 100 100
Sessional - 100 100 Final - Total - 100 100
Course Objectives:
Course Contents:
Thermodynamic system. Macroscopic vs. microscopic point of view. Properties and state
of a substance. Processes and cycles. Specific volume. Pressure. Equality of Temperature.
Zeroth law of Thermodynamics.
Vapor liquid solid phase equilibrium in a pure substance. Equations of state for a simple
compressible substance. Tables and diagrams of thermodynamic properties.
First law for a cycle. First law for a process. Internal Energy. Enthalpy. Specific heats.
First law as a rate equation Conservation of mass. Conservation of mass and the control
volume. First law for control volume . Steady state steady flow process. Uniform stae
uniform flow process.
Heat Engines and Refrigerators. Second law; Reversible process; Factors causing
irreversibility. Carnot cycle. Efficiency of a carnot cycle. Thermodynamic temperature
scale.
6. Entropy (4 hrs)
Vapor Power Cycles: Rankine cycle, Effect of pressure and temperature on Rankine
cycle; Air Standard Cycles: Carnot cycle, Brayton cycle; Internal combustion engines:
Otto cycle, Diesel cycle.
Introduction and application. Modes of heat transfer; Conduction: Fourier’s law. Thermal
conductivity. One-dimensional steady state heat conduction through a plane and
composite wall. Thermal resistance and conductance, Overall heat transfer coefficient.
Basic laws o radiation. Black and gray bodies. Rodioactive exchange between infinite
parallel planes. Newton’s laws. Mechanism of forced and free convention. Dimensionless
Parameters: Reynold’s number Nusselt’s number, Prandtl number. Simple empirical
relations for plate and pipe.
Laboratory Work:
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