Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics website
530.231 - Fall 2006
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Instructor: Charles
Meneveau,
Latrobe Hall 127, # 6-7802,
meneveau@jhu.edu
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Current announcements:
- Solution key for HW #9 available below
- 8 students still missing Lab 5 -> makeup scheduled for Monday
18th, 5pm in Krieger Lab. after final exam.
- Graded Labs #3 are posted in envelope in mailbox outside instructor
door in Latrobe 127.
- Final exam schedule: Monday
December 18. 2-5pm, MD Hall 201.
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Teaching Assistants:
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- Class times: MTW 1pm
+ W 4pm.
- Room: Maryland Hall 201
- TA Office
Hours: Monday 4-6pm,
Maryland Hall 307.
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Course content:
Properties of pure substances,
phase equilibrium, equations of state. First law, control volumes. Second
law, entropy, efficiency, reversibility, Carnot and Rankine cycles. Internal
combustion engines, gas turbines. Combustion.
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Grading:
- Homework: 10%
- Laboratories + projects:
30% (all are mandatory)
- Midterm 1: 15%
- Midterm 2: 15%
- Final Exam: 30%
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Scheduling and organization:
- Homework: due every Wednesday,
one week after being assigned (zero tolerance for late HW). Individual
work.
- Laboratories: Groups of
4, labs to be scheduled using posted signup sheets.
- Midterm 1: Wednesday October
25, 1pm.
- Midterm 2: Wednesday November
29, 1pm
- Final Exam: Monday December
18. 2-5pm.
Some extra
classes will be held on some Wednesdays 4pm (namely: Sept 20, Oct 11,
Nov. 1, Nov. 15, Dec 6) in order to account for instructor's absence
due to conference travels: September 12, 13, October 24, and November
20 and 21.
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Required Text:
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics,
sixth edition, by Sonntag, Borgnakke & Van Wylen. Publisher: Wiley
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Detailed syllabus:
- Introductory concepts: specific
volume, pressure, energy, units, intensive and extensive variables.
Laboratory: Temperature measurement.
- Properties of pure substances,
phase equilibrium, phase diagrams, equation of state, use of tables
and computerized tables. Brief definitions of internal energy, enthalpy,
entropy. Computer project 1: use of tables.
- Work, heat and first law
of thermodynamics. Control volume analysis. Laboratory: Energy balance
analysis on Internal Combustion engine.
- Entropy and second law of
thermodynamics. Efficiency. Carnot cycle.
- Power generation cycles.
Rankine cycle, reheat cycles, cogeneration.
- Refrigeration systems. Laboratory:
refrigeration cycle.
- Propulsion systems. Gas
turbine engine, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, etc.. Laboratory demonstration:
gas turbine engine lab.
- Thermodynamic relations.
- Elements of combustion.
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Ethics:
Cheating is wrong. Cheating hurts our community by undermining academic integrity,
creating mistrust, and fostering unfair competition. The university will punish
cheaters with failure on an assignment, failure in a course, permanent transcript
notation, suspension, and/or expulsion. Offenses may be reported to medical,
law or other professional or graduate schools when a cheater applies. Violations
can include cheating on exams, plagiarism, use of homework solutions obtained
from outside the course materials provided, improper use of the Internet and
electronic devices, unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded assignments,
forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty, and unfair
competition. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse.
In this course, all
work is INDIVIDUAL (homework, midterm exams, final exam), except for the execution
of the laboratories and the preparation of the laboratory reports. You may
of course also join with other students in studying for exams, solving problems
and discussing exercises (other than those assigned as homework) together.
If you have questions about this policy, please ask the instructor. Old exams
from this course may be found at the course webpage. For more information,
see the guide on "Academic Ethics for Undergraduates" and the Ethics
Board web site (http://ethics.jhu.edu).
ABET
ABET outcomes covered in this course:
(a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
[ME-O1 and ABET Criterion (a)],
(b) Design, conduct, evaluate and report experiments including analysis and
statistical interpretation of data [ME-O2 and ABET Criterion (b)]:
(c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political,
ethical, health and manufacturability, and sustainability [ME-O3, ME-O4, and
ABET Criterion (c)]
(e) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems [ME-O3
and ABET Criterion (e)]
(g) An ability to communicate effectively [ME-O6 and ABET Criterion (g)].
(h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering
solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context [ME-O6
and ABET Criterion (h)].
(k) An ability to use the techniques,
skills, and modern engineering tools
necessary for engineering practice [ME-O4 and ABET Criterion (k)].
