Thermodynamics:Pearson Education India, 2007 - 560 pages Thermodynamics is designed for the first course on thermodynamics offered to undergraduate students of mechanical engineering. The book presents the Macroscopic (classical) and Microscopic (Statistical) thermodynamics including applications to power cycles, and aims to create an analytical mind in the reader to solve problems. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Laws of ThermodynamicsI | 38 |
Laws of ThermodynamicsII | 72 |
Working Substance | 117 |
Gas and Vapour Mixtures | |
Reactive Mixtures | |
Vapour Power Cycles | |
Gas Power Cycles | |
Microscopic Approach | |
Tables | |
Additional Problems | |
List of Formulae | |
Answers to Multiplechoice Questions | |
Common terms and phrases
adiabatic analysis assume boiler Brayton cycle bulb temperature Carnot cycle change in entropy chart chemical closed system compression compressor condenser constant pressure constant volume cooling cylinder decreases determine Diesel cycle energy levels engine enthalpy entropy equation equilibrium Example AP exergy exit fluid fuel function gas turbine gases gives heat addition heat exchanger heat transfer heater hence humidity increase inlet interaction internal energy irreversibility isentropic efficiency isentropic process isothermal kg/s kj/kg liquid macrostate mass flow rate maximum Maxwell relation mixture nfee nozzle number of molecules obtained ofair ofthe open system Otto cycle output particles perfect gas piston power cycle power plant pressure and temperature pressure ratio properties psychrometric chart pump Rankine cycle reactants reaction reheat reversible saturated second law shown in Fig Solution Given specific heat steam table substance superheated surrounding T-s diagram tank thermal efficiency vapour velocity WHRB zero