Description:

This course will concentrate on basic principles of transport of heat and mass (conduction, convection, radiation, heat pumps; transport of moist in building materials) with practical examples such as heat loss of a pipe, solar heating/cooling systems and heat loss thru a window (two plates of glass with a gas between). An excursion to a large solar-cooling installation with a solar-powered heat pump is a part of the course.

Contents:

1. Thermodynamic systems.
2. Thermodynamic states and processes. Equations of state.
3. 1. thermodynamic theorem, specific heat capacity.
4. Heat propagation through conduction - Fourier's law.
5. Heat conduction in materials with temperature dependent thermal conductivity coefficient.
6. Heat conduction in space (simple geometry, numerical solutions).
7. Thermal resistance, heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer from surface to medium.
8. Continuous heat propagation through conduction, heat conduction equations, boundary conditions, examples.
9. Heat propagation by radiation.
10. Heat propagation by flow.
11. Mass transport.
12. Diffusion, thermodiffusion, moisture balance in building structures

Seminar contents:

N/A

Recommended literature:

[1] Miroslav Jílek: Thermomechanics, Part II Heat Transfer
[2] Yunus A. Cengel: Heat Transfer : A practical approach
Recommended literature is available in libraries of CTU (search at http://www.knihovny.cvut.cz/en/infzdroje/katalogy.html).

Keywords:

thermodynamics, heat transport, mass transport

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar