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Fluid Mechanics and Termomechanics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 338-0322/01
Abbreviation HydroTermo
Course title Fluid Mechanics and Termomechanics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Hydromechanics and Hydraulic Equipment
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Sylva Drábková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Pressure in a liquid at rest, Euler equation of hydrostatics and its application. Pascal's law. Pressure force on planar and curved surfaces. Fluids in relative rest.
2. Ideal fluid flow. Continuity equation. Euler equation of hydrodynamics. Bernoulli equation and its appluication. Terms of use. Measurement of liquid velocity and pressure in pipes.
3. Viscous fluid flow. Navier -Stoces equation. Bernoulli equation for real fluid. Hydraulic friction and local losses.
4. Hydraulic calculation of pipes. Hydraulic system, centrifugal pump, pump operation in hydraulic system. Uniform flow through the open channel.
5. Discharge from containers through hole and orifice, emptying of containers, weirs.
6. Unsteady flow in a pipe. Extended Bernoulli equation. Hydraulic shock.
7. Momentum equation and its application. Flow over bodies. Physical similarity in hydromechanics and its applications.
8. Reversible changes in ideal gas. Ideal gas law.
9. The first law of thermodynamics for a closed system. Heat cycles. Heat added to or removed from a body, work of expansion and compression.
10. The second law of thermodynamics. Determining the change in entropy of the basic reversible processes. Direct and reverse heat cycles. Carnot cycle.entropy of the basic reversible processes. Direct and reverse heat cycles. Carnot's cycle. 11. Comparison of explosive motor cycles, mixed and equal-combustion turbines. Determination of thermal efficiency and work done. Ideal and real single-stage compressor. Multistage compression.
12. Real gas, heat quantities, equation of state. A simplified calculation for real gas, assumptions, significance. Gas mixture.
13. Steam, basic concepts. Reversible changes of steam and their representation in the diagram, p-v and T-s. A simple ideal steam cycle T-s diagram. Steam Rankine-Claussian cycle. Humidity. Enthalpy of humid air and its thermal diagram
14. Basic types of thermal energy transmission. Stationary conduction and heat transfer with unlimited wall planar and cylindrical, simple and composite. Heat exchangers, the basis of heat calculation of recuperative heat exchangers.

Literature

SHAUGHNESSY, E. J., KATZ, I. M., SCHAFFER, J. P.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0195154511 . ISBN-10: 0195154517.
MORAN, M.J.; SHAPIRO, H. N.: Fundamental of Engineering Thermodynamics. 2.vyd. New York: John Wiey & Sons, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0471076813 .

Advised literature

MUNSON, B. R., YOUNG, D. F., OKIISHI, T.: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. March: Wiley Text Books, 2002. ISBN 047144250X 
FOX, R.W., MC DONALD, A.T.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. J. Wiley & sons, New York, 1994
ASWATHA NARAYANA, P.A., SEETHARAMU, K.N.: Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Alpha Asience International Ltd., Harrow, U.K., 2005
JÍLEK, M.: Thermomechanics, 3.vyd. Praha: ČVUT, 2011,176 s. ISBN 978-80-01-04750-7
JÍLEK, M.: Exercises and Labs in Thermomechanics, 3.vyd. Praha: ČVUT, 2012,138 s. ISBN 978-80-01-05086-6