The course aims to provide fundamental thermodynamic and fluid dynamic methods to be applied to fluid machinery description and analysis. The most relevant machinery applications in clinical contexts will be shown (e.g., circulation, ventilation, dialysis) and, in the end, students will be able to select and analyse properly machines for biomedical applications taking into consideration the most relevant technical constraints and boundary conditions.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
• Basic Units: SI System.
• Classification of fluids and basic characteristics and properties: compressible and non-compressible fluids (liquids, vapours, two and three-phase fluids, gases), equations of state, transformations.
• Forces applied to a system: mass and surface forces.
• The concept of viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Basic concepts on rheological characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Reynolds number. Evaluation of pressure drops in a permanent flow.
• Thermodynamic principles: first and second laws of Thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic transformations: thermodynamic diagrams, basic transformations (adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic, polytropic, etc.).
• Ideal and actual compression and expansion
• Cardinal equations: continuity, first and second thermodynamic laws, mechanical equation, auxiliary equations
• Application of fundamental concepts to case studies.
• Cavitation: fundamentals, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), how to select pumps according to cavitation limits.
• Basic concepts about plants for energy and heat/cold production for hospitals
Programme
• Fluid Machinery and Heat Exchangers: Classifications• Basic Units: SI System.
• Classification of fluids and basic characteristics and properties: compressible and non-compressible fluids (liquids, vapours, two and three-phase fluids, gases), equations of state, transformations.
• Forces applied to a system: mass and surface forces.
• The concept of viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Basic concepts on rheological characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Reynolds number. Evaluation of pressure drops in a permanent flow.
• Thermodynamic principles: first and second laws of Thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic transformations: thermodynamic diagrams, basic transformations (adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic, polytropic, etc.).
• Ideal and actual compression and expansion
• Cardinal equations: continuity, first and second thermodynamic laws, mechanical equation, auxiliary equations
• Application of fundamental concepts to case studies.
• Cavitation: fundamentals, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), how to select pumps according to cavitation limits.
• Basic concepts about plants for energy and heat/cold production for hospitals
Core Documentation
Documents given by the teacherReference Bibliography
• R. D. Zucker, O. Biblarz, “Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics”, Ed. John Wiley & Sons • Moran M., Shapiro H., Boettner D., Bailey M., FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS, Ed. WileyAttendance
On siteType of evaluation
Writing test containing three exercises and three open questions. teacher profile teaching materials
• Basic Units: SI System.
• Classification of fluids and basic characteristics and properties: compressible and non-compressible fluids (liquids, vapours, two and three-phase fluids, gases), equations of state, transformations.
• Forces applied to a system: mass and surface forces.
• The concept of viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Basic concepts on rheological characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Reynolds number. Evaluation of pressure drops in a permanent flow.
• Thermodynamic principles: first and second laws of Thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic transformations: thermodynamic diagrams, basic transformations (adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic, polytropic, etc.).
• Ideal and actual compression and expansion
• Cardinal equations: continuity, first and second thermodynamic laws, mechanical equation, auxiliary equations
• Application of fundamental concepts to case studies.
• Cavitation: fundamentals, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), how to select pumps according to cavitation limits.
• Basic concepts about plants for energy and heat/cold production for hospitals
Programme
• Fluid Machinery and Heat Exchangers: Classifications• Basic Units: SI System.
• Classification of fluids and basic characteristics and properties: compressible and non-compressible fluids (liquids, vapours, two and three-phase fluids, gases), equations of state, transformations.
• Forces applied to a system: mass and surface forces.
• The concept of viscosity. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Basic concepts on rheological characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Reynolds number. Evaluation of pressure drops in a permanent flow.
• Thermodynamic principles: first and second laws of Thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic transformations: thermodynamic diagrams, basic transformations (adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic, polytropic, etc.).
• Ideal and actual compression and expansion
• Cardinal equations: continuity, first and second thermodynamic laws, mechanical equation, auxiliary equations
• Application of fundamental concepts to case studies.
• Cavitation: fundamentals, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH), how to select pumps according to cavitation limits.
• Basic concepts about plants for energy and heat/cold production for hospitals
Core Documentation
Documents given by the teacherReference Bibliography
• R. D. Zucker, O. Biblarz, “Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics”, Ed. John Wiley & Sons • Moran M., Shapiro H., Boettner D., Bailey M., FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS, Ed. WileyAttendance
On siteType of evaluation
Writing test containing three exercises and three open questions.