URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=4PC00&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
Introduction- Conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy
- Energy dissipation, temperature increase and pressure loss
- Laminar and turbulent flow, transition
- Dimensionless numbers and similitude
Piping systems
- Incompressible and compressible flows
- Pressure drop and pressure loss
- Pipe networks
- Forces on pipes and accessories
- Pipe network design
Two-phase flows
- Two-phase flow regimes
- Terminology and quantities
- Pressure drop, homogeneous flow and correlations
- Pressure drop in flows with phase transition
Fluid machines with pressure head
- Working principles of pumps, fans, and turbines
- Types, specific speed
- Cavitation, NPSH
- Selection and design
Channel flows
- Uniform flow
- Rapidly varying flow
- Hydraulic jump
- Gradually varying flow
Separation
- Gravitational separators
- Centrifugal separators
- Cyclones
Heat transfer
- Mechanisms
- Heat exchangers
- Design methods, LMTD method and effectiveness method
Heat pipes
- Fundamentals
- Thermal performance
- Design considerations: materials, wick type, and fluid selection
- Applications
Objectives
- Identify and explain the underlying principles in heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
- Make suitable assumptions and simplifications, then predict the performance of equipment by a calculation
- Analyze the performance of a system of different components.
- Evaluate a system of components considering cost and energy consumption