1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM245 Thermodynamics 1
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week average
Hawthorn Assessment: examination and laboratory
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Objectives
To develop the fundamentals of thermodynamics;
to cover the Second Law, entropy and conservation
laws;
to apply these concepts to heat exchangers, boiling
condensation and radiation.
Content
Revision of steady flow
Second law of thermodynamics
The heat engine; Entropy; T-s diagram. Reversible processes
and the T-s diagram. Irreversible processes. Energy.
Power cycles
Carnot. Rankine (with reheat and feed water heating). Otto.
Diesel. Joule. Stirling. Ericson. Air standard cycle. Dual
combustion. Mean effective pressure.
Reciprocating gas compressors
Multistage compression. Steady flow analysis. Rotary
machines. Vacuum pumps. Air motors.
Reciprocating IC engines
Two stroke and four stroke. Other types of engines. Criteria
of performance. Engine output and efficiency. Performance
characteristics. Air standard cycles and real cycles. Fuels for
IC engines: octane and cetane rotating. Fuel systems.
Supercharging. Emissions and control. Alternative forms in
IC engines and development.
Fouriers law of conduction
Newtons law of cooling. The composite wall and electrical
analogy. The general conduction equation. Numerical
methods. Convection including natural and forced
convection. Heat exchangers. NTU. Effectiveness. Extended
surfaces. Black and grey body radiation. The Stefan-
Botzmann law. Lambert's law and the geometric factor. Gas
radiation.
Refrigeration and heat pumps
COP. Reverse heat engine cycle. Vapour-compression
cycles. Refrigeration load. The pressure-enthalpy diagram.
Compressor type. The use of flash chamber. Vapour
absorption cycle. Gas cycles. Refrigerants. CFC's and
HCFC's.
Experiments
Air to steam heat exchanger. Air compressor. Heat pump.
Gas turbine.
Recommended reading
Eastop, T.D. and McConkey, A., Applied Thermodynamicsfor
Engineering Technologists, 5th edn, Longman, 1993
Rogers, G. and Mayhew, Y., Engineering Thermodynamics, 4th
edn, Longrnan, 1992
MM246 Fluid Mechanics 1
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination and laboratory
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Objectives
To develop the fundamentals of fluid mechanics to cover
fluid statics, momentum and energy principles and boundary
layer theory.
To apply these fundamentals to turbo-machinery and
conduit flow.
Content
Introduction to fluid mechanics
Fluid properties
Ideal flow. Viscosity. Elasticity. Surface tension. Vapour
pressure. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.
Fluid statics
Manometry. Pressures. Heads. Hydrostatics forces on
surfaces. Buoyancy.
Fluids in motion
Continuity. Acceleration. Control volumes.
Pressure variation flowing fluids
Bernoulli equation. Separation. Cavitation.
Momentum principle
Moment of momentum. Navier Stokes equation. Reynolds
equation.
Energy principle
Hydraulic and energy lines.
Flow in conduits
Shear stress. Laminar flow. Turbulent flow. Pipe systems.
Losses. Non-circular conduits.
Recommended reading
Daughtery, R.L., Franzini, J.B. and Finnernore, E.J., Fluid
Mechanics w'th Engineering Applications, McGraw Hill, S1 Metric
edn, 1989
Douglas, J.F., Gasiorek, J.M. and Swaffield, J.A., FluidMechanics,
3rd edn, Longrnan, 1995
Roberson, J.A., and Crowe, C.T., Enginewing Fluid Mechanics,
Houghton-Mifflin, 5th edn, 1993