Introduction, Background to the subject - History – links key characters to reference during the module
Basic assumptions & definitions - Flows and systems definitions
Engineering scales and dimensional analysis - Application of scale engineering, Units and dimensions, ratios and coefficients, dimensional analysis
Working fluids and thermofluid basics - Properties of state, phases of substances, kinetic theory of gases, spec. work, heat and first law, processes and paths, entropy and 2nd law, entropy & T-S diagrams
Power generation - Intro to heat cycles, Carnot cycle and real engines, Otto, Diesel, heat pumps, Brayton, Rankine cycle and combined cycles, electricity generation
Fluid statics - Hydrostatic pressure, force, centre of pressure, buoyancy and stability
Flow characterisation and visualisation
The conservation laws (Inviscid) –mass/continuity, Mechanical energy (Bernoulli) , momentum, Steady flow energy equation, Steady Mechanical energy equation, general energy equation
Viscous flow – Intro (viscous vs inviscid), Reynold number & surface roughness, Velocity distributions, boundary layers, form drag