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~ ~ 5 Thermo/Fluid 2 0 ~ Mechanics
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures, tutorial and laboratory work
Assessment: laboratory, assignment and
examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide students with an opportunity to
peruse a number of applied thermolfluid areas in depth.
The syllabus includes three topics selected from: turbulence
theory: equations of continuity and motion for turbulent mean
flow; methods of solution. Flow of an ideal fluid: circulation,
vorticity, stream function, velocity potential and flow nets,
basic flow patterns and combinations of same; aerofoil theory.
Low Reynolds number flows: steady laminar flow in pipes and
between parallel plates; measurement of viscosity;
fundamentals of the theory of hydrodynamic lubrication. Twophase
flows: slurries and particlefcarrier gas flows. Supersonic
flow: oblique shock waves, subsonic and supersonic
combustion ramjets, supersonic inakes.
Textbooks
Cameron, A. Basic Lubrication Theory. 3rd edn, Chichester, E.
Horwood, 1981
Douglas, J.F., Gasiorek, J.M. and Swaffield, J.A. Fluid Mechanics. 3rd
edn, Harlow, Essex, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1995
Milne-Thompson, L.M. Theoretical Hydrodynamics. 5th edn, London,
Macmillan, 1968
Reynolds, A. Turbulent Flows in Engineering. London, Wiley, 1974
Tennekes. H. and Lumley, J.L. A First Course in Turbulence. Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, 1972 -
MMS~OB Energy Systems
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures, tutorial and laboratory work
Assessment: laboratory, assignment and
examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to persue advanced topics in energy systems.
The syllabus contains three topics, two of which are supported
by laboratory work.
Solar energy: spectral energy distribution, atmospheric
scattering and absorption, collector geometry, optical
properties of transparent and opaque materials, internal and
external heat transfer processes and efficiency, thermophon
circulation.
Heat transfer: numerical methods applied to multi-dimensional
unsteady conduction with boundary convention and radiation
and extended surfaces.
One topic selected from: heat and mass transfer in direct
contact processes, turbocharged internal combustion engines,
available energy and direct energy conversion.
Text
Eastop, T.D. and McConkey, A. Applied Thermodynamics for
Engineering Technologists. Harlow, Essex, Longman, 1993
References
Beghi, G. Performance of Solar Energy Converters: Thermal Collectors
and Photovoltaic Cells. Dordrecht, Holland, D. Keidel Publishing Co.,
1983
Blackmore, D.R. and Thomas, A. Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine,
London, Macmillan, 1977
Watson, N. and Janata, M.S. Turbocharging the Internal Combustion
Engine. London, Macmillan, 1982
Incropera, F.P. and DeWitt, D.P. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass
Transfer. 3rd edn, New York, Wiley, 1990
Holman, J.P. Heat Transfer: Singapore, McGraw-Hill, 1989
~ ~ 5 Energy 2 0 ~ Modelling
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
Assessment: reports
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to introduce students to the application of
numerical methods to the solution of engineering problems.
Students will aain experience in apolvina finite difference and
finite element-techniques to selec'tedpr6blems in thermolfluid
mechanics where alternative solutions are available from
physical measurements or analytical solutions.
Objectives will cover modelling accuracy, degree of difficulty,
computina time, economic effectiveness in comparison with
alternative solutions and relative accuracy of experimental
data.
The program includes: introduction to available numerical
packages for thermolfluid modelling. Demonstrate. Select an
energy system problem (heat transfer or boundary layer)
amenable to solution by a Runge-Kutta technique. Write a
suitable numerical model, code and compare to alternative
solution. Select an energy system problem suitable for
solution with one of the standard packages (e.g. MSCIPAL,
NASTRAN, FIDAP, INFERNO). Write a report covering both
tasks and addressing the above objectives.
References
Anderson, W.J. MSC NASTRAN Interactive Training Program. New
York, Wiley, 1983
Fletcher, C.A.J. Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics, Vols. 1 &
2. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1988
MacKenzie, H.J. and Perry, J.H. 'The Numerical Modelling of the
Interaction of Burner Jets in Brown Coal Fired Boilers'. Final Report
NERDDP project No. 85/5002. Swinburne Mechanical Engineering
Report MEl88102. (1988)
~ ~ 5 4Mechanics 0 and Machine Systems
Assessment: assignment, laboratory and computer
simulation
Subject aims and description
Four twenty-six hour subjects are offered: MM540A Mechanics
of Solids, MM540B Vibration and Modal Analysis, MM540C
Control Engineering and MM5400 Machine Systems and
Simulation. Students must take two of the four alternatives
offered.
The subjects within this group aim to present more advanced
topics in both the theoretical and applied aspects of the area
of study.
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