15616 - Applied Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0949)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student has acquired the basics of fluid dynamics and heat transfer and is able to apply analytical and numerical techniques to solve issues of interest in Mechanical Engineering.

Course contents

Introduction. Summary of Thermodynamics. Introduction to the modes of heat transfer. Conduction, the basics. One-dimensional, steady-state conduction. Two-dimensional, steady-state conduction. Transient conduction. Convection, the basics. External flows. Internal flows. Free convection. Boiling and condensation. Heat exchangers. Radiation: mechanisms and properties. Radiation: exchange between surfaces. Basics of mass transport.

Readings/Bibliography

Incropera, DeWitt, Bergman, Lavine Principles of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th Ed. International Student Version. Wiley 2011.

Teaching methods

Each lesson (in Italian) covers theoretical aspects and numerical exercises.

Lessons are made mainly on the blackboard, with support of MATLAB for numerical exercises.

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination.

Teaching tools

Power point slides.

Thermodynamics tables and charts.

MATLAB scripts.

Office hours

See the website of Massimiliano Rossi