Thermodynamics

Description

The course material covers the following aspects: basic concepts and basic principles, properties of matters and the evaluation of properties, thermodynamic processes and cycles, and introduction to chemical- thermodynamics. The course content includes: thermodynamic systems, states and processes, state variables and process variables, equilibrium and quasi-equilibrium processes, energy and energy transfer, the first law of thermodynamics, properties of pure matter and the evaluation of properties, ideal gas equation of state, first-law analysis of closed systems, control volume and mass conservation, first-law analysis of control volumes, steady-flow devices, transient processes and analysis, the second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, Clausius inequality, entropy and entropy balance, isentropic processes, thermodynamic property relations, reversible and irreversible processes, gas power cycles (Brayton cycle, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle), vapor power cycles,