Università Roma Tre

The course analyzes fluid motion and energy processes of systems. Aim of the course is to teach students methodologies that, moving from the scientific content of thermodynamics and fluid-dynamics, lead to engineering tools that are used to describe processes involving changes in pressure, temperature, transformation of energy into work and heat, and the relationships between heat and work. Such engineering tools are general because no hypothesis is made concerning the structure and type of problem. The energy processes that convert heat from available energy sources, such as chemical fuels, into work are the major concern of this course that consists of a number of analytical and theoretical methods which may be applied to machines to industrial power, heating and cooling (refrigeration) systems.