THERMAL SYSTEMS MODELING

ME 477

Apply knowledge of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and energy systems laboratory in the design of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems used in commercial buildings as well as other large buildings such as laboratories, healthcare facilities, and education facilities. Understand the engineering challenges in designing and deploying efficient and high-performing mechanical systems that provide building occupants comfort, quality indoor environment, while maintaining occupant safety. Principles of engineering ethics and its application to buildings and their HVAC system.

ME 564

Applications of conduction, convection, and thermal-radiation principles to combined-mode problems; analytical and numerical techniques; heat-exchanger design; thermal stresses.

EPD 361

Theory and application of energy methods in engineering; conservation of mass and energy; energy transfer by heat, work and mass; thermodynamic properties; analysis of open and closed systems; the second law of thermodynamics and entropy; vapor and gas power cycles.

ME 471

Principles of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics utilized in the analysis and design of gas-turbine cycles, components and systems for stationary, automotive and aircraft applications.

ME 340

Mathematical modeling and analysis of dynamic systems with mechanical, thermal, and fluid elements. Topics: time domain solutions, analog computer simulation, linearization techniques, block diagram representation, numerical methods and frequency domain solutions. Students are assumed to have basic competence in particle and planar rigid body dynamics, matrix and vector algebra, and linear differential equations.