• 1. Types of pores, porosity, absolute and relative humidity, physisorption and chemisorption.
• 2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
• 3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
• 4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
• 5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
• 6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
• 7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
• 8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
• 9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
• 10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
• 11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
• 12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
• 13. Acoustics of inner spaces.

Topics and content of laboratory exercises:

• 1. Determination of heat capacity of solids by means of calorimeter (measurement)
• 2. Determination of coefficient of heat expansion of solids (measurement)
• 3. Determination of heat conduction of brick by means of non-stationary method (measurement)
• 4. Determination of adiabatic Poisson’s constant of air (measurement)
• 5. Determination of heat factor of heat pump (measurement)
• 6. Determination of frequency dependence of sound absorptivity (measurement)
• 7. Frequency analysis of sound (measurement)
• 8. Reverberation time in a room (measurement)
• 9. Determination of roughness of fracture surfaces by means of the confocal microscope

Throughout the semester students solve a set of numerical problems and continuously provide their results to teachers to check the results.