Course Details

Thermomechanics

Academic Year 2025/26

BTA015 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Ondřej Šikula, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/290015

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to thermomechanics, laws of thermodynamics, thermomechanical quantities, thermomechanical properties of materials, thermal diagrams, basic thermodynamic processes.
  • 2. Stationary heat conduction, thermo-technical properties of substances, Fourier law, thermal diffusion equation, stationary heat conduction by cylindrical wall and flat internal heat source, minimum and critical thickness of pipe insulation.
  • 3. Non-stationary heat conduction, criteria of thermomechanical similarity in heat conduction. Symmetrical cooling and heating of a wall and a cylinder. Cooling and heating of the semi-solid. Heat conduction in a rib.
  • 4. Heat transfer in natural and forced convection. Thermomechanical similarity criteria for heat transfer. Heat transfer by a external forced convection. Forced and natural convection in a closed pipe.
  • 5. Heat transfer by radiation. Optical properties of surfaces. Laws of radiation.
  • 6. Sharing of heat during group changes. Changes in melting - solidification, evaporation - condensation. Boiling and condensation phases. Convective vapor and condensation in the pipe.
  • 7. Heat exchangers. Countercurrent, countercurrent, crossover and changeover exchangers. NTU and LMTD methods of calculation heat exchangers.
  • 8. Hydrostatic and relative stady stay of fluids.
  • 9. Hydrodynamics. Equations of Continuity, Euler, Navier-Stokes and Bernulli's equations. Principles of velocity and pressure measurement.
  • 10. Laminar and turbulent flow of fluids. Darcy-Weisbach and Reynolds equations.
  • 11. Pipe pressure losses. Hydraulically smooth and rough piping. Flow of Liquids from Containers.
  • 12. Unsteady motion of fluids. The two-phase free surface flow.
  • 13. Inner and outer aerodynamics. Potential flow, free flow, flow past an obstacle, Magnus phenomenon, air jet interaction.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to thermomechanics, laws of thermodynamics, thermomechanical quantities, thermomechanical properties of materials, thermal diagrams, basic thermodynamic processes.
  • 2. Stationary heat conduction, thermo-technical properties of substances, Fourier law, thermal diffusion equation, stationary heat conduction by cylindrical wall and flat internal heat source, minimum and critical thickness of pipe insulation.
  • 3. Non-stationary heat conduction, criteria of thermomechanical similarity in heat conduction. Symmetrical cooling and heating of a wall and a cylinder. Cooling and heating of the semi-solid. Heat conduction in a rib.
  • 4. Heat transfer in natural and forced convection. Thermomechanical similarity criteria for heat transfer. Heat transfer by a external forced convection. Forced and natural convection in a closed pipe.
  • 5. Heat transfer by radiation. Optical properties of surfaces. Laws of radiation.
  • 6. Sharing of heat during group changes. Changes in melting - solidification, evaporation - condensation. Boiling and condensation phases. Convective vapor and condensation in the pipe.
  • 7. Heat exchangers. Countercurrent, countercurrent, crossover and changeover exchangers. NTU and LMTD methods of calculation heat exchangers.
  • 8. Hydrostatic and relative stady stay of fluids.
  • 9. Hydrodynamics. Equations of Continuity, Euler, Navier-Stokes and Bernulli's equations. Principles of velocity and pressure measurement.
  • 10. Laminar and turbulent flow of fluids. Darcy-Weisbach and Reynolds equations.
  • 11. Pipe pressure losses. Hydraulically smooth and rough piping. Flow of Liquids from Containers.
  • 12. Unsteady motion of fluids. The two-phase free surface flow.
  • 13. Inner and outer aerodynamics. Potential flow, free flow, flow past an obstacle, Magnus phenomenon, air jet interaction.