Thermodynamics 2
J Price
4 points * 39 lecture and 13 laboratory hours* First semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: MEE3362
Reversible work, availability and irreversibility. Vapour power plant: Carnot, Rankine, reheat and regenerative cycles; effect of variables on plant performance; combined power and process heating plant. Modern thermal power station practice. Compressible flow; one dimensional compressible flow; sonic velocity. Mach number, convergent nozzles, critical pressure ratio, convergent/divergent nozzles. Numerical solution applied to unsteady flow processes. Steady and unsteady state conduction, extended surfaces, numerical solution to two-dimensional conduction problems. Dimensional analysis applied to forced and natural convection. Heat transfer during condensation and evaporation. Heat exchangers: overall heat transfer coefficient, log mean temperature difference, heat exchanger effectiveness, rational design procedure for shell and tube exchangers.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 70% * Laboratory work, a 1-hour test, tutorial: 30%
Prescribed texts
Holman J P Heat transfer SI edn, McGraw-Hill, 1989
Van Wylen G J and Sonntag R E Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics 3rd edn, Wiley, 1985