B2402 - THERMAL CONTROL

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering for Sustainability (cod. 5980)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the Lab the student will be able to know the systems, both traditional and new, which are used for thermal control of mobility related systems; calculate the thermal requirements for automotive thermal control devices; choose and design a suitable solution for thermal control problems arising in automotive applications.

Course contents

Classroom activities: basics of temperature measurements. Infrared thermography: basics and intermediate notions. Basics of thermal system modelling.

Laboratory activities: infrared measurements and data acquisition/processing. Use of simulation tools (software) to assess the performance of thermal control systems for automotive applications.

Readings/Bibliography

All material used for the lectures and lab activity will be made available on the website https://virtuale.unibo.it

Teaching methods

Teaching is in the form of classroom lectures and lab activity.

Assessment methods

Assessment is individual and basedon the discussion of a report describing lab activities.

Successful completion of the course entitles to the statement of  'Pass'.

Teaching tools

Classromm activity consists of lectures and software use (Matlab/Simulink for simulation and data processing).  Lab activity consists of experimental measurements and data acquisition.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Lorenzini