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Jan 05, 2025
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ME 311 - Principles of Thermodynamics I3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The first subject in engineering thermodynamics for the mechanical engineering student uses the classical approach. The subject material serves as a building block for all thermodynamic oriented subjects to follow. Specific topics include heat and work transfer, thermodynamic properties, and energy balances for open and closed systems. (prereq: MA 231 , PH 2030 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• use thermodynamic tables to find properties
• apply the ideal gas and incompressible liquid and pure substance models to thermodynamic problems
• write an energy balance for a closed system
• use the closed system energy balance to evaluate processes, including determining work and heat transfer
• write an energy balance for steady flow open system
• use the open system energy balance to evaluate processes, including determining work and heat transfer
Prerequisites by Topic
• Partial derivatives
• Differential and integral calculus
• Physics of liquids and gases
Course Topics
• Introduction, Definitions, Dimensions and Units
• Thermodynamic Properties, State, Temperature and Pressure
• Energy Transfer by Work, Forms of Mechanical Work, Moving Boundary Work
• The First Law of Thermodynamics, Energy Balances
• Pure Substance Model, Phases and Phase Change of a Pure Substance, Property Tables
• Ideal Gas Model
• Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and Specific Heats of Ideal Gasses and Liquids
• Open Systems - Conservation of Mass
• Steady-Flow System Energy Analysis of Devices - Nozzles, Diffusers, Turbines, Compressors, Throttling Valves, Mixing Chambers, Heat Exchangers
• Energy and the Environment
• Connections between Energy Generation, Energy Consumption and Global Climate Change
Coordinator
Christopher Damm
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