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Thermal Science 2nd

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Fuzhou University

Subject name Thermal Science


Subject code 00500992
Status Major
Teaching hours 40 lecture, 26 tutorial
Semester/Year
Pre-requisite
Teaching method Lectures & Tutorials
Assessment Assignments and Tutorials 10%
Term test 1 20%
Term test 2 20%
Exams (Open Text Book) 50%
Lecturer
Objective and Objective:
Learning Topics covered include fundamental concepts in thermodynamics, properties
outcomes of a pure substance, boundary work, first law of thermodynamics for closed
and open system, second law of thermodynamics and engineering applications
of thermodynamics.
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand the basic concepts of thermal and mechanical equilibrium, and
apply the basic hydrostatics principles to simple engineering problems.
2. Determine the thermodynamic properties of a pure substance, and
evaluate a thermodynamic process involving phase changes.
3. Understand the derivation of the general mass and energy conservation
equations.
4. Analyze and solve open and closed system problems that involve mass,
heat and work transfer for thermodynamic processes involving pure
substances and ideal gases.
5. Apply the second law of thermodynamics to cycles and cyclic devices.
6. Use a systematic problem solving technique to solve thermodynamic
problems.
Syllabus & 1. Basic Concepts.
Course Content Thermodynamic System and the Control Volume, Macroscopic Versus
Microscopic Point of View, Properties and State of a Substance, Processes
and Cycles, Units for Mass, Length, Time, and Force, Energy, Specific
Volume and Density, Pressure, Equality of Temperature, The Zeroth Law
of Thermodynamics, Temperature Scales
2. Properties of a pure substance.
The Pure Substance, Vapor-Liquid-Solid-Phase Equilibrium in a Pure
Substance, Independent Properties of a Pure Substance, Tables of
Thermodynamic Properties, Thermodynamic Surfaces, The P–V–T
Behavior of Low- and Moderate-Density Gases, P-v and T-v diagrams,
applications
3. Work and Heat.
Fuzhou University

Definition of Work, Units for Work, Work Done at the Moving Boundary
of a Simple Compressible System, Other Systems that Involve Work,
Concluding Remarks Regarding Work, Definition of Heat, Heat Transfer
Modes, Comparison of Heat and Work, Engineering Applications
4. First law for closed and open systems.
The First Law of Thermodynamics for a Control Mass Undergoing a
Cycle, The First Law of Thermodynamics for a Change in State of a
Control Mass, Internal Energy—A Thermodynamic Property, Problem
Analysis and Solution Technique, The Thermodynamic Property Enthalpy,
The Constant-Volume and Constant-Pressure Specific Heats, The Internal
Energy, Enthalpy, and Specific Heat of Ideal Gases, The First Law as a
Rate Equation, Conservation of Mass, Engineering Applications
5. First Law Analysis for a Control Volume
Conservation of Mass and the Control Volume, The First Law of
Thermodynamics for a Control Volume, The Steady-State Process,
Examples of Steady-State Processes, Engineering Applications
6. Second law.
Heat Engines and Refrigerators, The Second Law of Thermodynamics,
The Reversible Process, Factors that Render Processes Irreversible, The
Carnot Cycle, Two Propositions Regarding the Efficiency of a Carnot
Cycle, The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale, The Ideal-Gas
Temperature Scale, Ideal versus Real Machines, Engineering Applications

Total hours 48 class hours


Textbook Borgnakke and Sonntag, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, 8th edition.

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