Thermal-Fluids Engineering I | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Class Information

DynamicsEnergyFluidsFundamentalsThermal

Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 12 Units | Prereq: (Calculus II (GIR), Physics II (GIR), and (2.086, 6.0002, or 18.06)) or permission of instructor

Integrated development of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, with applications. Focuses on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, mass conservation, and momentum conservation, for both closed and open systems. Entropy generation and its influence on the performance of engineering systems. Introduction to dimensionless numbers. Introduction to heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. Steady-state and transient conduction. Finned surfaces. The heat equation and the lumped capacitance model. Coupled and uncoupled fluid models. Hydrostatics. Inviscid flow analysis and Bernoulli equation. Navier-Stokes equation and its solutions. Viscous internal flows, head losses, and turbulence. Introduction to pipe flows and Moody chart.

Instructor Information

Pierre Lermusiaux (Fall)

Nam P. Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interest Areas

Ocean Data Assimilation, Numerical Ocean Modeling
Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Inference, and Machine Learning
Applications to Ocean Dynamics and Engineering

Jacopo Buongiorno (Fall)

Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems

Interest Areas

Nuclear batteries
Offshore floating nuclear power
Design and thermal-hydraulics of nuclear reactors

Kripa Varanasi

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interest Areas

Physico-Chemical Phenomena, Thermal-Fluids, Interfaces, Electromagnetism, Electrochemistry,
Energy, Water, Agriculture, CO2, H2
Biointerfaces, Soft Matter, Biomanufacturing, BioMedical