Description:
| Aims: To understand how thermodynamics and fluid mechanics can be applied to engineering systems.
Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit the student should be able to:
* Calculate pressure losses and flow distributions in duct/pipe networks.
* Perform cavitation calculations on simple systems.
* Calculate the thermodynamic properties of gas-vapour mixtures.
* Perform combustion calculations involving dissociation.
* Carry out 2nd Law analysis on systems.
* Perform compressible flow calculations including the effects of friction and heat transfer.
Skills: Problem solving; numeracy; working independently.
Content: Pipe flows and networks. Cavitation. Gas vapour mixtures. Exergy Combustion. Rayleigh flow. Fanno flow.
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