Syllabus - Thermo fluid Engineering (AB 302)

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Thermo fluid Engineering (AB 302)

III-Semester

Unit 1

Basic Concepts & Laws of Thermodynamics

Basic concepts: Property, Equilibrium, State, Process, Cycle, Zeroth law of thermodynamics, Heat and work transfer. First law of thermodynamics, first law applied to various systems steady flow process, limitations of first law of thermodynamics.

Unit 2

Second law of Thermodynamics

Heat engine, heat reservoir, Refrigerator, heat pump, Carnot's cycle, statements of second law Reversible and irreversible processes, consequence of second law, Clausious Inequality, Entropy, T-S diagrams, Available & Unavailable energy Availability

Unit 3

Properties of Steam

Pure Substance, Phase, Phase-transformations, formation of steam, properties of steam, PVT surface, HS,TS,PV,PH,TV diagram, measurement of dryness fraction using calorimeter, Use of steam tables and Mollier chart to determine properties of steam.

Unit 4

Fluid Properties

Introduction, fluid and the continuum, fluid properties, surface tension, Newton’s laws of viscosity and it’s coefficients, Types of fluids, Pascal’s Law, Hydrostatic Law, hydrostatics and buoyancy, meta centre and metacentric height, stability of floating bodies and submerged bodies.

Unit 5

Fluid Kinematics and Dynamics

Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, stream line, path line and streak line, types of flow and types of motion, local and connective acceleration, continuity equation of one, two and three dimensions, Velocity potential function, Stream Function, Laplace equation, circulation, flow nets. Fluid Dynamics: Euler’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Application of Bernouli’s Equation: Venturimeter, Orifice meter, Pitot Tube, Momentum equation, Impulse Momentum Equation and moment of momentum equation, their applications.

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to develop ability and gain insight into the process of problem-solving, with emphasis on thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.

Course Outcome

At the completion of this course, students should be able to know about the basic concepts, statement and applications of Zeroth Law, First Law and Second Law of Thermodynamics. To understand the concept of entropy, change in entropy, Available & Unavailable energy, concept of Availability. Learn about pure substances, steam, properties of steam, determination of dryness fraction, enthalpy, entropy and internal energy of different types of steam using steam table and Mollier diagram. To have knowledge of basic properties of fluid, Hydrostatics, Buoyancy, Metacentre and stability conditions of floating bodies. Derive and solve problems related to Euler’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Application of Bernouli’s Equation in Venturi meter, Orifice meter, Pitot Tube (working principle), Momentum equation.

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Nag P.K.; Engineering Thermodynamics; Mc Graw Hills Fifth Edition

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  • Domkundwar Thermal Engineering, Dhanpat Rai & Co.

  • Bansal R.K. Fluid Mechanics Laxmi Publication

  • ModI and Seth, Fluid Mechanics

  • Shames, Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hills