Thermodynamics
Professor Z. S. Spakovszky

Office: 31-265

Phone: 617-253-2196

Email: zolti@mit.edu

Aero-Astro Web: http://mit.edu/aeroastro/people/spakovszky

Gas Turbine Laboratory: home

Fall 2008

HAND-OUTS

Subject Information: Concepts, learning objectives, and measurable outcomes (pdf file)

Handout #1: Tips on how to solve problems in thermo-fluids engineering (pdf file)

Handout #2: Introduction to the 2nd law of thermodynamic (pdf file)

Handout #3: h-s diagram and thermodynamic properties of air (pdf file)*

Journey through a Jet Engine: Link to Rolls-Royce webpage

Gibbs: ASME Mechanical Engineering article "Stamp of Authenticity" (pdf file)

OUTLINE OF LECTURES

Lecture
Date
Topic
Reading Assignments
T1 9/5 Course Introduction and Thermodynamic Concepts
Chapters 1.1 - 1.2
T2 9/8 Changing the State of a System with Heat and Work
Chapter 1.3
T3 9/9 Conservation of Energy - First Law of Thermodynamics
Chapters 2.1 - 2.2
T4 9/10 Enthalpy, Specific Heats
Chapters 2.3 - 2.4
T5 9/12 Control Volume Form of Conservation Laws
Chapter 2.5.1 - 2.5.2
T6 9/17 More on Control Volume Form of Conservation Laws
Chapter 2.5.1 - 2.5.2
T7 9/18 Stagnation Temperature and Stagnation Enthalpy
Chapter 2.5.3
T8 9/26 Example Applications of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 2.5.4
T9 9/29 Engineering Cycles - The Carnot Cycle
Chapter 3.1 - 3.3
T10 10/1 Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
Chapter 3.4
T11 10/6 Otto and Diesel Cycles
Chapters 3.5 - 3.6
T12 10/7 Brayton Cycle
Chapter 3.7
T13 10/9 Gas Turbine Technology and Thermodynamics
Chapter 3.7.2
T14 10/16 Reversibility and Irreversibility in Natural Processes
Chapter 4.1 - 4.3
T15 10/17 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 5.1 - 5.2
T16 10/20 The Gibbs Equation
Chapter 5.3
T17 10/22 Entropy Changes
Chapter 5.4 - 5.5
T18 10/24 Limitations on Useful Work
Chapter 6.1
T19 10/30 T-s and h-s Diagrams
Chapter 6.3 - 6.4
T20 10/31 Lost Work
Chapter 6.5
T21 11/3 Unavailable Energy (Lost Work by Another Name)
Chapter 6.6
T22 11/5 Examples of Lost Work in Engineering Processes
Chapter 6.7
T23 11/13 More Examples of Lost Work in Engineering Processes
Chapter 6.7

 


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LECTURE NOTES

 

HTML Version of Full Lecture Notes: Thermodynamics Notes (html)**

 

Index of Chapters:

1. Introduction to Thermodynamics

2. The First Law of Thermodynamics

3. The First Law Applied to Engineering Cycles

4. Background to the Second Law of Thermodynamics

5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

6. Applications of the Second Law

7. Entropy on the Microscopic Scale

8. Power Cycles with Two-Phase Media

9. Introduction to Propulsion

10. Integral Momentum Equation

11. Aircraft Engine Performance

12. Energy Exchange with Moving Blades

13. Aircraft Performance

14. Rocket Performance

15. Generating Heat: Thermochemistry

16. Conductive Heat Transfer

17. Convective Heat Transfer

18. Generalized Conduction and Convection

19. Radiation Heat Transfer

 

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** : Last update 4/12/2007

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