Course Details

Thermomechanics

Academic Year 2025/26

NTB034 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

Theory of heat transfer in building services. Thermal properties of materials, elementary heat processes. Vapour and conditions of vapour. Thermal processes, their dynamic, analytical and numerical solution. Heat transfer by natural and forced convection. Heat transfer by phase changes. Heat transfer by radiation. Principles of heat exchangers in building services. Special problems in heat transfer in building services.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Ondřej Šikula, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

  • Professional Knowledge: The student understands the theoretical principles of steady-state and transient heat conduction, convection, radiation, phase transitions, and thermodynamic states of water vapor in building services engineering applications.
  • Professional Skills: The student can analytically and numerically solve heat transfer and conduction problems in planar and cylindrical structures, convective heat exchange, and phase changes within building services systems.
  • Professional Competences: The student is qualified to independently evaluate and optimize the thermal performance of building structures and HVAC/building services components for energy-efficient design and operation.

Aims

  • Professional Knowledge: The student understands the theoretical principles of steady-state and transient heat conduction, convection, radiation, phase transitions, and thermodynamic states of water vapor in building services engineering applications.

  • Professional Skills: The student can analytically and numerically solve heat transfer and conduction problems in planar and cylindrical structures, convective heat exchange, and phase changes within building services systems.

  • Professional Competences: The student is qualified to independently evaluate and optimize the thermal performance of building structures and HVAC/building services components for energy-efficient design and operation.

Basic Literature

2021 ASHRAE Handbook -- Fundamentals (SI), 2021. Atlanta: ASHRAE. ISBN 978-1-947192-90-4. (en)
JÍCHA, Miroslav, 2001. Přenos tepla a látky. Brno: CERM, 160 s. ISBN 80-214-2029-4. (cs)
VDI-Wärmeatlas: Berechnungsblätter für den Wärmeübergang, 2002. 9., überarb. und erw. Aufl. Berlin: Springer, 1 sv. (různé stránkování). ISBN 35-404-1200-X. (de)
PAVELEK, Milan, 2011. Termomechanika. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 192 s. ISBN 978-80-214-4300-6. (cs)
NAKAYAMA, Y. a R. F. BOUCHER, 1999. Introduction to fluid mechanics. New York. ISBN 03-406-7649-3. (en)
GEBAUER, Günter, 1996. Termika pro TZB. Základní úlohy v příkladech. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, 56 s. ISBN 80-214-0745-X. (cs)
DRÁBKOVÁ, Sylva, 2008. Mechanika tekutin. 1. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita. ISBN 978-80-248-1508-4. Dostupné také z: https://cdrive.vsb.cz/index.php/s/TSQKDOuJhZFnyI6 (cs)
JANALÍK, Jaroslav a Pavel ŠŤÁVA. MECHANIKA TEKUTIN. 1. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita. Dostupné také z: https://cdrive.vsb.cz/index.php/s/xb3FjosMqUXlaiS (cs)
INCROPERA, Frank P., David P. DEWITH, Theodore L. BERGMANN a Lavine ADRIENNE S., 2007. Introduction to heat transfer. 5th ed. Danvers: John Wiley, 901 s. ISBN 978-0-471-45727-5. (en)

Prerequisites

  • Professional Knowledge: The student understands the theoretical principles of steady-state and transient heat conduction, convection, radiation, phase transitions, and thermodynamic states of water vapor in building services engineering applications.
  • Professional Skills: The student can analytically and numerically solve heat transfer and conduction problems in planar and cylindrical structures, convective heat exchange, and phase changes within building services systems.
  • Professional Competences: The student is qualified to independently evaluate and optimize the thermal performance of building structures and HVAC/building services components for energy-efficient design and operation.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/298531

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Heat transfer in building services.
2. Water vapour and its states.
3. Analytical solution of steady stay heat conduction.
4. Numerical solution of steady stay heat conduction.
5. Non-stationary heat conduction in a wall and a ground.
6. Non-stationary convection in a cylindrical wall, analytical and numerical solution.
7. Free and forced convection heat transfer.
8. Heat transfer by a phase change.
9. Radiative heat transfer.
10. Current topics in heat and mass transfer.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Heat transfer in building services.
2. Water vapour and its states.
3. Analytical solution of steady stay heat conduction.
4. Numerical solution of steady stay heat conduction.
5. Non-stationary heat conduction in a wall and a ground.
6. Non-stationary convection in a cylindrical wall, analytical and numerical solution.
7. Free and forced convection heat transfer.
8. Heat transfer by a phase change.
9. Radiative heat transfer.
10. Current topics in heat and mass transfer.