Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Description

The course provides a unified introduction to thermodynamics, gas dynamics, and heat transfer for students of aeronautics. It serves as a foundation for more advanced courses, particularly propulsion and aerodynamics, which are taken in the second and third years of the degree programme. On successfully completing this module, you should be able to: 1. Define a system as open or closed, identify transfers of work or heat to or from the system, and apply an appropriate formulation of the first law to relate energy changes to exchanges of heat and work; 2. Identify processes which would violate either the first or second laws of thermodynamics and thus discriminate processes that may be possible from those that are impossible; 3. Calculate entropy changes for an ideal gas; 4. Describe the connection between entropy and measures of order and apply Boltzmann’s entropy formula to a simple expansion process; 5. Understand the phenomenon of choking and be able to apply this to practical problems, assuming either isothermal or adiabatic conditions; 6. Identify different paths for heat transfer and apply simple energy balance relations; 7. Derive the governing equations of heat diffusion and to apply these to solve basic steady and unsteady problems of conduction and convection; 8. Define appropriate models for simple geometries, and given required data, compute the total heat transfer arising from conduction, convection or radiation, including the heat transfer from a surface bounding a stationary or moving fluid.