Fundamentals of Thermodynamics

What you get

• ✓Full Thermodynamics video course - 35 video lessons explaining all 10 topics (ideal gas to exergy)
• ✓Practice tasks
• ✓2 Sample exams with video solutions
• ✓Notes you can draw on - make your own notes collection directly here

Topics included (10)

1. 1
   Ideal Gas

   Ideal gas law, solving for gas constant with specific heat. State properties.
2. 2
   Energy & Work - Closed Systems

   1st law (energy balance) for closed systems, boundary work and heat transfer with sign convention. Closed system with isobaric, isothermal and polytropic processes.
3. 3
   First Law - Open Systems

   Steady-flow open system 1st law for gas-turbine cycle. Solving ideal intermediate pressure of reheater.
4. 4
   Heat Pumps & Refrigerators

   How heat pumps and fridges work, coefficient of performance and Carnot efficiency.
5. 5
   Closed Cycles

   Detailed analysis on closed systems, full 1st law extensive derivation. Solving Otto and Diesel engine cycles.
6. 6
   Open Cycles

   Detailed analysis on steady state open systems. Solving Brayton cycle and full cycle efficiency.
7. 7
   Isentropic Efficiency

   Isentropic efficiency of process and full cycle, polytropic relations, using isentropic efficiency to solve real processes.
8. 8
   Entropy

   2nd law of thermodynamics, Entropy balance, ideal gas entropy equation. Full example for all equations in a polytropic turbine.
9. 9
   Real Fluids

   1st, 2nd law analysis of real fluids using property and steam tables, analysis of 2 phase mixtures with TS diagrams, full examples of rankine cycles, refrigerant systems.
10. 10
    Exergy

    Exergy definition, exergy balance equation, dead state, open and closed system exergy balance and destruction for real and ideal gas.