Introduction to the fundamentals of classical thermodynamics and heat transfer, first and second laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic property relationships; application to engineering systems and processes, introduction to conduction, convection and radiation, steady 1-D conduction and extended surfaces and lumped capacitance method.
Overview of the physical and mathematical foundations of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Numerical solution techniques for the Navier-Stokes equations; finite difference and finite volume methods, including discretization, stability analysis, and time stepping; turbulence modeling; grid generation and complex geometries. Introduction to commercial CFD software. Includes projects.