ME 200 - Thermodynamics

Fall 2021

TitleRubricSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
ThermodynamicsME200AL169990LEC30800 - 0850 M W F  0035 Campus Instructional Facility Leon Liebenberg
Bruno Yuji Kimura de Carvalho
Emre Eraslan
ThermodynamicsME200AL269991LEC31200 - 1250 M W F  3031 Campus Instructional Facility Shelby Hutchens
Sugun Tej Inampudi
Weihao Cheng
ThermodynamicsME200AO275484OLC3 -    Shelby Hutchens
Sugun Tej Inampudi
Weihao Cheng

Official Description

Classical thermodynamics through the second law; system and control-volume analyses of thermodynamic processes; irreversibility and availability; relations for ideal gas mixtures. Course Information: Prerequisite: MATH 241.

Detailed Course Description

Introduction to classical thermodynamics through the second law; system and control volume analyses of thermodynamic processes; irreversibility and availability; relations for ideal gas mixtures. Prerequisite: MATH 241. 3 undergraduate hours.

TOPICS:

1. Introduction

2. Definitions, properties, equations of state, state postulate, compressibility charts

3. Work, heat transfer, first law of thermodynamics for a control mass (closed system)

4. First law of thermodynamics for a control volume (open system), steady state and unsteady analysis

5. Entropy, second law of thermodynamics, component efficiency, cycle efficiency (examples of power and refrigeration cycles)

6. Reversible work, availability, irreversibility

7. Properties and thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures

ME: Required.

EM: Required.

Last updated

8/17/2022