Università Roma Tre

Goal of the course is to provide students and non specialist engineers a simple and fundamental approach to the design of thermal systems (cogeneration and power plants). The course emphasises the choices of configurations and the selection of architectures, shapes and sizes close to the optimal solution. Moreover methods for finding performance characteristic curves are developed. The interrelationships among limitations of materials, thermal, fluid-dynamics and mechanical aspects are widely analysed and discussed. After the course the student should have a picture of the most relevant aspects related to thermo-mechanical systems design. He/she will acquire tools that enable him/her to set up an entire design process from problem definition to decision making.