(Department)  Biomedical Engineering         (Division)      Bioelectric
 
 (Level and Major) 
 

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Course Title                 Thermodynamics
 
Number of Credits       3             Prerequisite Mathematics (II), Physics (I)
 
 

Course Description:
The basics concepts of thermodynamics, first and second laws of the thermodynamics would be introduced. The application of thermodynamics and thermodynamics tables and figures in the engineering problems would be widely practice.
 
Course Goals and objectives:
At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Be familiar with thermodynamics basic concepts
• Use thermodynamics property tables and figures
• Solve different cylinder-piston systems
• Solve different heat engine, heat pump, and refrigerator problems
• Apply thermodynamics laws to their engineering problems

 
Course Topics:

• Basic concepts of the thermodynamics (system, open and close systems, control mass, control volume, control surface, boundary, process, equilibrium, density, specific volume, stability, uniform, thermodynamics cycle, pressure, temperature,…)
• Pure materials, liquid-vapor equilibrium
• P-v-T diagram, Ideal gas
• Compressibility factor and its general diagram
• Equation of states
• Heat transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation)
• Work (mechanical, electrical, boundary, shift, spring, and surface work)
• First law of thermodynamics for control mass
• Internal energy, enthalpy, and entropy
• Heat capacity 
• First law of thermodynamics for control volume
• Heat exchanger, compressor, pump, heat engine, refrigerator
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Carnot cycle

 
 
Reading Resources:
Two first items are the main ones and the rest are for detailed study.

• Fundamentals of thermodynamics, 8th edition. C. Borgnakke and R.E. Sonntag
• Fundamentals of engineering thermodynamics, 5th edition. M.J. Moran and H.N. Shapiro
• Thermodynamics, an engineering approach, 8th edition. Y.A. Cengel and M.A. Boles

 
Evaluation:

• Midterm                                   25%
• Homework                               10%
• Participation in discussion       10%
• Final                                         55%

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