MIA 505E - Design of Thermal Systems

Course Objectives

• To understand engineering design process and to define design objectives and understand the basis and criteria for the design of thermal systems.
• To state the requirements of a design problem and show workable solutions that meet the requirements.
• To be familiar with the environmental impact of energy systems.
• To model thermal system components by integrating thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer and using curve fits of tabulated or experimental data.
• To combine models of various thermal system components to simulate the performance of a complete thermal system.
• To gain experience in using computer techniques in modeling and simulating typical thermal systems;
• To introduce economics into thermal systems analysis and design and perform economic calculations involving time and interest.
• To Formulate an optimization problem of a thermal system in mathematical terms and apply optimization tools to a thermal system to find the best set of operating or design parameters, using calculus-based methods, search methods, geometric programing methods and others.

Course Description

Engineering design process. Design objectives and the basis and criteria for the design and optimization of thermal systems.