Introduction to Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

The subject gives an introduction to the laws of fluid flow and heat transfer and their applications, with help of analytical, numerical and practical methods. The course is a combination of theory and laboratory work that enables the students to collect and process required information for analysis of heat and mass transfer in combined systems and relevant technologies. The laboratory experiments will be marked as part of the final grade of the course.

Fluid Flow: Fluid properties, pressure and fluid statics, fluid kinematics, Bernoulli equation and pipe flow, Moody Chart.

Heat transfer: Thermodynamic state diagrams, heat pumps, air conditioning, stationary and transient conduction in solid materials, engineering correlations for convective heat transfer, heat transfer in phase transitions, heat transfer in pipes and heat exchangers, radiation.

Measurement methods in fluid flow and heat transfer

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

- Report process parameters using different units and basis, make and discuss process diagrams.

- Understand fundamentals of fluid flow and properties.

- Calculate pressure drop, friction loss and velocities in pipe flows.

- Understand the basis for and the development of Bernoulli equation.

- Be able to read technical diagrams such as Moody's diagram and thermodynamic state diagrams.

- Solve steady state 1-dimensional conductive and convective heat transfer problems for simple geometries like ducts and surfaces.

- Understand the basis of radiation.

- Estimate heat transfer coefficients.

- Analyze the performance of industrial heat exchangers and calculate the required heat transfer area using the method of log mean temperature difference and the method of heat exchanger effectiveness.

- Understand measurement methods in fluid flow and heat transfer.

- Use Python to solve simple mass and heat transfer problems.

Lectures (60 hours), exercises (30 hours), lab work (10 hours) and self study (100 hours). Admission to the exam requires that 7 of 10 exercises are approved.