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| Classes taught by Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux | |||
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| Term | Subject | Class Title | Description |
| Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007 |
2.005 | Thermal-Fluids Engineering I | Integrated development of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer with applications. Focuses on the development of the first and second laws of thermodynamics with special consideration of the rate processes associated with heat transfer and work transfer. Entropy generation and its influence on the performance of engineering systems. Conduction heat transfer in solids including steady-state and transient situations. Finned surfaces. Coupled and uncoupled fluid models. Hydrostatics. Inviscid flow analysis and Bernoulli equation. Internal and external laminar viscous flows. Turbulence. Boundary layers. Head loss in pipes. |
| Spring 2008 | 2.29 | Numerical Fluid Mechanics | Introductory MATLAB. Introduction to numerical methods: number representation and errors, interpolation, differentiation, integration, systems of linear equations, Fourier interpolation and transforms. Fluid flow modeling, the Navier-Stokes equations and its approximations. Differential equations: partial and ordinary differential equations, elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic differential equations. Solution of fluid differential equations by finite difference methods and finite volume methods. Stability and time marching methods. Grid generation. Finite element and spectral methods, boundary element methods and panel methods. Boundary layers. Turbulent flows: models and numerical simulations. |
| Spring 2007 | 2.006 | Thermal-Fluids Engineering II | Focuses on the application of the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics to the design and analysis of engineering systems. Laminar and turbulent flow. Heat transfer associated with laminar and turbulent flow of fluids in free and forced convection in channels and over surfaces. Pure substance model. Heat transfer in boiling and condensation. Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics of steady flow components of thermodynamic plants. Heat exchanger design. Power cycles and refrigeration plants. Design of thermodynamic plants. Radiation heat transfer. Multi-mode heat transfer and fluid flow in thermodynamic plants. |
For undergraduates that are interested, we have UROP projects that they could work on. For more information, see the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) in Mechanical Engineering.