Courses

Explores fundamental concepts and basic theory, including first and second laws of thermodynamics, properties, states, thermodynamic functions and cycles. Prereq., APPM 2350. Same as GEEN 3852. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of APPM 2350 or MATH 2400. Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior/Senior) MCEN or EVEN majors or concurrent degree majors in CVEN/EVEN or MCEN.

Studies fundamentals of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Provides applications to heat exchangers, solar panels, and boiling and mass transfer. Also covers numerical methods for solving heat transfer problems and design of engineering equipment involving heat transfer processes. Prerequisites: Requires prereq courses of MCEN 3012 (or GEEN 3852, or CHEN 3320, or ASEN 2002, or AREN 2110) & MCEN 3021 (or GEEN 3853, or CHEN 3200, or CVEN 3313) & MCEN 3030. Restricted to students w/ 57-180 credits (Jr or Sr) MCEN or EVEN majors.

Offers advanced topics and applications, including thermodynamics of state, entropy and probability, thermodynamic cycles, and reacting and nonreacting mixtures. Provides application to engines and power generation by conventional and alternative energy technologies. Most assignments are design oriented. Prereqs., MCEN 3012 and 3021. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of MCEN 3021 (or CHEN 3200 or CVEN 3313 or GEEN 3853) and MCEN 3012 (or AREN 2110 or GEEN 3852). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior/Senior) Mechanical Engineering or Environmental Engineering majors only.

Description of the mechanisms by which fuel and oxidizers are converted into combustion products. Application to practical combustion devices such as Otto, Diesel, gas turbine, and power plant combustion systems. Consideration of combustion-generated air pollution, fire safety, and combustion efficiency. Prereq., MCEN 3012. Recommended prereqs., MCEN 3021 and 3022. Same as MCEN 5152.

Examines common energy-conversion methods and devices. Topics include power-cycle thermodynamics, turbocompressor and expander processes, combustion systems, and applications and limitations of direct energy-conversion systems. Prereq., MCEN 3012.

First and second laws of thermodynamics. Entropy and availability. Cycle analysis. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances and mixtures. Property relations. Chemical reactions and chemical availability. Energy systems analysis. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.

Studies development of equations governing transport of heat by conduction, convection, and radiation, and their solution. Includes analytical and numerical solution of initial and boundary value problems representative of heat conduction in solids. Describes heat transfer in free and forced convection, including laminar and turbulent flow. Also involves radiation properties of solids, liquids, and gases and transport of heat by radiation. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.

Axiomatic formulation of macroscopic thermodynamics. Quantum mechanical description of atomic and molecular structure. Statistical mechanics description of thermodynamic properties of gases, liquids and solids. Elementary kinetic theory of gases and evaluation of transport properties. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prereq., undergraduate thermodynamics. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.

Finite difference, finite volume, finite element, and spectral methods, consistency, stability and convergence of numerical schemes, governing equations for reacting flows, convection, diffusion, convection-diffusion problems, matrix solution methods-cyclic reduction, Fourier, Jacobin, Gauss Siedel, Sor, Adi, Chebschev acceleration, Lax-Wendroff scheme, Mccormack scheme, transonic small disturbance equation solution, staggered grids, simple scheme, discrete Fourier transform. Students work on two substantial projects using commercial software. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.

Same as MCEN 4152. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.

Applies multicomponent fluid equations of motion and chemical thermodynamics to a variety of combustion problems. Covers droplet combustion, premixed and diffusion flames, boundary layer combustion, detonation wave theory, topics related to internal combustion engines, and liquid and solid rockets. Prereq., MCEN 3012 and 3021. Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Degree students. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduate Students or BS/MS Mechanical Engineering or Concurrent Degree students.