2025Year

Second Semester

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture

Advanced Thermodynamics

Z1400015 Advanced Thermodynamics

YAMAMOTO Ken

2.0Credits

Tue.5Period

Hachioji Campus

1S-208講義室

A) A high degree of specialized expertise　100%
B) The skills to use science and technology　0%
C) The ability to conduct research independently, knowledge pertaining to society and occupations, and sense of ethics required of engineers and researchers　0%
D) Creative skills in specific areas of specialization　0%

The goal of the course is to understand concepts of scaling and dimensionless numbers, and to acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills to seek the essence of complex thermofluidic phenomena through simple experiments and analyses. Students will also be expected to develop skills in constructing physical models to explain these phenomena and in presenting their models or comparisons with experimental results in English.

Students should be better to have a fundamental understanding of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

Project Based Learning／Discussion Debate／Group Work／Presentation／Practice Fieldwork

1. Overview of scaling, derivation of basic dimensionless numbers
2. Tabletop experiment 1: Understanding the properties of surface tension
3. Visualization and measurement techniques
4. Tabletop experiment 2: Visualization and measurement of capillary phenomena
5. Phenomenon modeling: Derivation of the characteristic time and comparison with experimental results
6. Tabletop experiment 3: Lifetime of Leidenfrost droplets
7. Analysis: Fourier's law, heat conduction equation
8. Analysis: Numerical solution of the heat conduction equation 1
9. Analysis: Numerical solution of the heat conduction equation 2
10. Modeling using scaling 1
11. Modeling using scaling 2
12. Exercise: English presentation 1
13. Exercise: English presentation 2
14. Exercise: English presentation 3
15. Course review

Grades will be evaluated based on the total of in-class exercises (50%) and in-class English presentations (50%).

Oral feedback will be provided during and after exercises, as well as comments following the English presentations.

Not specified.

“Scaling, self-similarity, and intermediate asymptotics” G. I. Barenblatt (Cambridge University Press)
“Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves” P.-G. de Gennes, F. Brochard-Wyart, D. Quéré (Springer)
“Fluid Mechanics: A Very Short Introduction” E. Lauga (OUP Oxford)

Wednesday 15:50-16:50, Hachioji Campus (Multiscale Interfacial Thermofluids Laboratory)

Heat and fluid flows are often inseparable, and phenomena become even more complex when interfaces are present. In this hands-on course, you will develop the skills and techniques to understand the essence of these complex phenomena as simply as possible, and be able to apply them to the challenges you encounter.

Not applicable

Mechanical Engineering Program