Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics
What you'll learn
- Identify the basic principles of thermodynamics
- Analyze some steady-flow engineering devices such as nozzles, compressors, turbines, throttling valves, mixers, and heat exchangers
- Evaluate work, heat transfer and power in processes
- Understand entropy concept and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and apply them to practical problems
Requirements
- Students are assumed to have an adequate background in calculus and physics
Description
This course introduces and discusses the concepts and fundamentals of temperature and thermometry, equations of state for fluids and solids, work, heat, the first law, internal energy, enthalpy, specific heats, energy equations for flow, change of phase, the second law, reversibility, entropy; combined first and second laws. It analyzes applications to a wide range of processes and devices.
Who this course is for:
- Engineering students
Course content
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Instructor
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Samer is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has ten years of teaching experience in thermo-fluid courses which include:
1-Engineering Thermodynamics
2-Heat Transfer
3-Internal Combustion Engines
4-Fluid Mechanics
5-HVAC
6-Power Plant Engineering
7-Solar Engineering
8-Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD
Moreover, Prof. Samer is involved in a wide research projects in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluid-Structure Interaction and numerical simulations applied to multi-functional heat exchangers/reactors. Prof. Samer has authored and co-authored several highly cited journal publications, conferences in the aforementioned topics.