Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
15.0 ECTS creditsThe course covers the following:
- Conduction, convection, and radiation
- Forms of energy, energy conversion, energy content, phase conversion, and enthalpy
- Ideal gases, the state of a substance, equilibrium
- Open and closed systems, system boundaries, mass and energy balances
- The first law of thermodynamics
- Energy equations
- Energy and effect
- The properties of fluids, viscosity, incompressibility
- Hydrostatics
- The continuity equation
- Bernoulli's equation
- Pump and fan curve, system curve, operating point
- Cavitation
- The Swedish energy system, electricity production plants, heat and cold, basic circuit diagram, efficiency, and resource flows
- Hydroelectric power and wind power
- Conduction, convection, and radiation
- Forms of energy, energy conversion, energy content, phase conversion, and enthalpy
- Ideal gases, the state of a substance, equilibrium
- Open and closed systems, system boundaries, mass and energy balances
- The first law of thermodynamics
- Energy equations
- Energy and effect
- The properties of fluids, viscosity, incompressibility
- Hydrostatics
- The continuity equation
- Bernoulli's equation
- Pump and fan curve, system curve, operating point
- Cavitation
- The Swedish energy system, electricity production plants, heat and cold, basic circuit diagram, efficiency, and resource flows
- Hydroelectric power and wind power
Progressive specialisation:
G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)
Education level:
Undergraduate level
Admission requirements:
General admission requirements and upper secondary level Mathematics 3c, Physics 2, and Chemistry 1 (field-specific eligibility A8)
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.