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About the Book
This edition of the book serves as a text book for the first and second level courses in Engineering Thermodynamics in any undergraduate Mechanical engineering curriculum. The chapter on Exergy introduces the concept of exergy and also demonstrates in detail how it can be used to evaluate the second law efficiency of devices and cycles. The chapter on Thermodynamic cycles deals with Rankine, Brayton, Otto and Diesel cycles as well as the vapor compression refrigeration cycle. Both first and second law analysis of the cycles are presented. The chapter on Psychrometry introduces concepts relating to moist air followed by application of these concepts to examples from HVAC. The chapter on Combustion discusses combustion stoichiometry and application of first and second law to reacting systems involving solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. The chapter on Gas Phase Chemical Equilibrium introduces the notion of mechanical, thermal and chemical equilibrium and discusses in detail how equilibrium compositions of reacting mixtures are evaluated. The last chapter on Compressible Flow in Nozzles discusses in detail aspects relating to the flow of a calorically perfect gas (air) and steam in nozzles. The discussion also includes Normal shocks in the case of the former. This edition of the book also contains numerous worked examples from practical engineering applications. Hopefully, these will illustrate the application of the concepts developed in the chapters to practical situations and make the book interesting, useful and enjoyable.
Contents
1 Introduction 2 Basic Concepts 3 Work and Heat 4 First Law of Thermodynamics 5 Properties of Pure Substances 6 First Law Analysis of Systems 7 First Law Analysis of Control Volumes 8 Second Law of Thermodynamics 9 Entropy 10 Exergy 11 Thermodynamic Cycles 12 Psychrometry 13 Combustion Thermodynamics 14 Gas Phase Chemical Equilibrium 15 Compressible Flow in Nozzles A Use of air tables Index
About the Author
Dr. V. Babu is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras. He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from REC Trichy in 1985 and Ph. D from the Ohio State University in 1991. He worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Ohio State University from 1991 to 1995. He was a Technical Specialist at the Ford Scientific Research Lab, Dearborn, Michigan from 1995 to 1998. He received the Henry Ford Technology Award in 1998 for the development and deployment of a virtual wind tunnel. He has four U.S. patents to his credit. He joined IIT Madras at the end of 1998. He has published technical papers on simulations of fluid flows including plasmas and non-equilibrium flows, computational aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, scientific computing and ramjet, scramjet engines. His primary research specialization is CFD and he is currently involved in the simulation of high speed reacting flows, prediction of jet noise, simulation of fluid flows using the lattice Boltzmann method and high performance computing.
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