Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS Code 00710315
Study programme
0710 - GRADO EN INGENIERÍA AEROESPACIAL
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
6 Compulsory Second First
Language
Castellano
Ingles
Prerequisites
Department QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS
Coordinador
GARCÍA ORTEGA , EDUARDO
E-mail egaror@unileon.es
jtfera@unileon.es
jlsang@unileon.es
Lecturers
FERNÁNDEZ ÁLVAREZ , JUAN TOMÁS
GARCÍA ORTEGA , EDUARDO
SÁNCHEZ GÓMEZ , JOSÉ LUIS
Web http://
General description This course is an introduction to thermodynamics and deals with equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, basic thermodynamics, the three laws of thermodynamics, energy transfer, entropy, exergie or gas power cycles
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS MARCOS MENENDEZ , JOSE LUIS
Secretario QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS CALVO GORDALIZA , ANA ISABEL
Vocal QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS LOPEZ CAMPANO , LAURA
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS FRAILE LAIZ , ROBERTO
Secretario QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS MERINO SUANCES , ANDRES
Vocal QUIMICA Y FISICA APLICADAS ZORITA CALVO , MIGUEL

Competencias
Code  
A17700
A17703
A17720
B5474
B5475
B5476
C2 CMECES2 That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
C3 CMECES3 That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
C4 CMECES4 That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialised and non-specialised audience

Learning aims
Competences
A17700
A17703
A17720
B5474
B5475
B5476
C2
C3
C4

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Part I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION AND BASIC CONCEPTS.
Overview of thermodynamics and basic concepts such as system, state, state postulate, equilibrium, process,...

Chapter 2. GENERAL ENERGY ANALYSIS.
Discussion of various forms of work and energy transfer by heat and work; conservation of energy principle.

Chapter 3. PROPERTIES OF PURE SUBSTANCES.
Discussion of the physics of phase-change processes; real-gases and ideal-gases behavior.
Part II: THE FIRST LAW Chapter 1. (4) THE FIRST LAW.
Moving boundary work; general energy balance relation; first law of thermodynamics; specific heats and relations for the internal energy and enthalpy of ideal gases and incompressible substances.

Chapter 2. (5) ENERGY ANALYSIS OF CLOSED SYSTEMS AND CONTROL VOLUMES.
Conservation of mass; flow work and energy of fluid streams; common steady-flow devices; unsteady-flow processes.
Part III: THE SECOND LAW Chapter 1. (6) THE SECOND LAW. ENTROPY.
The second law; reversible and irreversible processes; Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements; cycles; absolute thermodynamic temperature scale; Carnot cycle; heat engines; refrigerators and heat pumps; thermal efficiencies and coefficients of performance.

Chapter 2. (7) ENTROPY.
Clausius inequality; entropy and increase of entropy principle; entropy changes in processes; isentropic processes; reversible steady-flow work relations; isentropic efficiencies; entropy balance to various systems.

Chapter 3. (8) EXERGY.
Definition of energy; reversible work; energy destruction; second-law efficiency; energy balance relation.
Part IV: THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES AND THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY RELATIONS Chapter 1. (9) POWER GAS CYCLES.
Assumptions aplicable to gas power cycles; closed and open gas power cycles; Otto, Diesel, Stirling, Ericsson and Brayton cycles; jet-propulsion cycles.

Chapter 2. (10) THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY RELATIONS.
Fundamental relations between commonly encountered thermodynamic properties; Maxwell relations; Clapeyron equation; general relations for specific heats, internal energy, enthalpy and entropy,

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Class hours Hours outside the classroom Total hours
Problem solving, classroom exercises 12 30 42
 
Seminars 3 3 6
Laboratory practicals 10 3 13
Tutorship of group 2 0 2
 
Lecture 30 54 84
 
Extended-answer tests 3 0 3
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  
  Description
Problem solving, classroom exercises
Seminars
Laboratory practicals
Tutorship of group
Lecture

Personalized attention
 
Problem solving, classroom exercises
Lecture
Description

Assessment
  Description Qualification
Laboratory practicals 20
Problem solving, classroom exercises 60
Lecture 20
 
Other comments and second call

Sources of information
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, Física vol. I, Addison-Wesley, 1987
F. W. Sears, M. W. Zemansky, H. D. Young, R. A. Freedman, Física vol. I, Pearson, 1999
P. A. Tipler, G. Mosca, Física vol. I, Reverté, 2010
M. J. Moran, H. N. Shapiro, Fundamentos de Termodinámica Técnica, Reverté, 2004
Y. A. Çengel, M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics: an Engineering Approach, McGrawHill, 2010

Complementary M. J. Moran, H. N. Shapiro, Fundamentos de termodinámica técnica, Reverté, 2004
H. B. Callen, Termodinámica, AC, 1985


Recommendations


Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
LINEAR ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY / 00710001
DIFFERENTIAL AND INGTEGRAL CALCULUS / 00710002
Physical fundamentals / 00710003
CHEMISTRY / 00710004
Extension of Physics / 00710007
Fluid mechanics / 00710011
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING / 00710013