ME 311
INTRODUCTION TO THERMAL FLUID SCIENCES

Course Description

This course introduces basic concepts of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer, including conservation of mass, energy, moment, and the second law of thermodynamics.

Topics

• Concepts and definitions
  
• Work, heat and energy, energy balance
  
• Properties of pure substances
  
• PVT relations and equations of state
  
• Steady-state conservation of mass and energy
  
• Transient analysis
  
• Second law, temperature scales
  
• Carnot cycle, Claudius inequality, entropy 
  
• Hydrostatics
  
• Dimensional analysis
  
• Control volume analysis of momentum balance
• Shear stress and viscosity
  
• Modes of heat transfer
  
• Conduction, convection, radiation examples

Learning Outcomes

The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:

• State and illustrate the principles of conservation of mass and energy to open and closed systems, both transient and steady state.
  
• State and illustrate the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., entropy analysis and its basic concepts including the possibility and impossibility of process, Carnot device, and reversibility and irreversibility.
  
• Apply conservation of momentum to control volumes in a systematic approach.
  
• Identify modes of heat transfer and solve problems with conduction, convection, radiation, and phase-change heat transfer.
  
• Define states and evaluate property data for problem-solving using tables, charts, and formulas.
• Use Engineering Equation Solver (EES) to evaluate properties and solve problems.