Università Roma Tre

• Fluid Machinery and Heat Exchangers: Classifications
• Basic Units: SI System.
• Classification of fluids and basic characteristics and properties: compressible and non-compressible fluids (liquids, vapours, two and three-phase fluids, gases), equations of state, transformations.
• Forces applied to a system: mass and surface forces.
• The concept of viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Basic concepts on rheological characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Reynolds number. Evaluation of pressure drops in a permanent flow.
• Thermodynamic principles: first and second laws of Thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic transformations: thermodynamic diagrams, basic transformations (adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic, polytropic, etc.).
• Ideal and actual compression and expansion
• Cardinal equations: continuity, first and second thermodynamic laws, mechanical equation, auxiliary equations
• Application of fundamental concepts to case studies.
• Cavitation: fundamentals, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), how to select pumps according to cavitation limits.
• Basic concepts about plants for energy and heat/cold production for hospitals

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