Overview
This unit will introduce you to the fundamentals of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. You will start with gas laws and laws of thermodynamics for open and closed systems. You will further work on the physics of phase change processes using T-v and P-v diagrams for pure substances. This will allow you to move on to energy analysis of closed systems, and mass and energy analysis of control volumes. In this unit, you will learn how to classify fluids and determine different forces on submerged objects. You will later work on two most commonly used equations in fluid mechanics: Bernoulli and energy equation in the context of pressure, velocity and energy conservation. You will finish this section by discussing internal and external (drag and lift) fluid flows. This unit will allow you to work on problems related to heat transfer such as, steady and transient heat conduction, and forced and natural heat convection. You will be introduced to the working principles of hydraulic and pneumatic devices, their configuration and characteristics. This will enable you to analyse pneumatic circuits and select components in the context of mechatronics systems. Students enrolled in distance mode are required to attend a compulsory Residential school and have access to a computer and make frequent use of the internet.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
MATH11219 Applied Calculus AND ENEG11009 Fundamentals of Energy and Electricity AND [ENEG11006 Engineering Statics OR ENEM12007 Statics & Dynamics]
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation
Weekly quizzes are very engaging and enabled students to make regular study and remain up-to-date.
This practice will be continued.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation, Discussions during the residential school
Residential school was well run and was enjoyable.
This practice will be continued.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation
Assignment provided the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.
This practice will be continued.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation
Unit was very well run, with well presented lectures, clear tutorials, useful labs practicals which reinforced the theory and prompt response for the queries.
This practice will be continued.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation
Residential school should be moved forward to have even workload during the whole duration of the term.
The residential school will be moved forward in the next delivery.
- Describe fundamental and key concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
- Apply energy equations and laws of thermodynamics to solve conservation problems
- Analyse various phase change processes, heat transfer mechanisms, and thermal cycles
- Solve problems related to flow rates, pressures and forces for fluid systems
- Design mechatronics systems using pneumatic elements
- Communicate professionally using relevant technical terminology, symbols, and diagrams and effectively document calculations and solutions
- Work autonomously and as a team to analyse problems and present solutions.
Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||||
3 - Practical Assessment - 20% | |||||||
4 - Examination - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Communication | |||||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||||
5 - Team Work | |||||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
3 - Practical Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
4 - Examination - 40% |
Textbooks
Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences (in SI Units)
Edition: 5th (2016)
Authors: Authors: Cengel, YA, Turner, RH & Cimbala, JM,
McGraw Hill Education Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK
Berkshire, UK Berkshire, UK , UK
ISBN: ISBN: 9780078027680
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.narayanan@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Unit Information, Introduction, Basics of Thermodynamics
Chapter
Chapter 1 & 2 of Textbook of the unit.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Energy, Properties of pure substances
Chapter
Chapter 3 & 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Closed systems, Control Volumes
Chapter
Chapters 5 & 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter
Chapters 7 & 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Power cycles
Chapter
Chapter 9
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Vacation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Refrigeration cycles
Chapter
Chapter 9
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Properties of fluids, Fluid statics
Chapter
Chapter 10 & 11
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Residential School.
Module/Topic
Bernoulli’s equations, Momentum analysis of flow
Chapter
Chapters 12 & 13
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Laboratory reports Due: Week 8 Friday (13 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Internal flow
Chapter
Chapter 14, 15 Sections.1-.2.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Heat Transfer
Chapter
Chapter 16 &17
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Module/Topic
Pneumatics
Chapter
Lecture notes
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture, Tutorial and Weekly Quiz.
Assignment Due: Week 11 Friday (4 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Revision
Chapter
All chapters
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Exam/Review
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Exam
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
The weekly quizzes assess contents from each week. There will be 10 quizzes starting from week 2 extending up to week 11 and all quizzes together will have 20% weighting of the unit. The assessment task can be accessed from the unit Moodle site on a weekly basis. Each quiz will be open for a week and students need to attempt within the open period. Weekly due dates will be given in the Moodle.
Weekly due dates will be given in the Moodle
Students will be getting feedback immediately after the submission of the quizzes.
The correct answer will get full marks and the incorrect answer will be given zero marks.
- Describe fundamental and key concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
- Apply energy equations and laws of thermodynamics to solve conservation problems
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
This assignment assesses contents from Week 1 to Week 9. The assessment task will be available in the unit Moodle site. You must provide detailed solutions to the problems given in the assignment in order to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the concepts and processes incorporating any assumptions made, relevant sketches, clear step by step solution and conclusion/judgement on the answer
Week 11 Friday (4 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Two weeks after submission
Your submission will be graded based on the report, the method of solution, appropriate explanation and completeness of the solution. A complete solution should include any assumptions made, relevant sketches, clear step by step solution and conclusion/judgement on the answer. More information will be there in the Moodle.
- Describe fundamental and key concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
- Analyse various phase change processes, heat transfer mechanisms, and thermal cycles
- Design mechatronics systems using pneumatic elements
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Practical Assessment
Attend all the laboratory sessions and participate in the learning activities and complete related reports. Details of the laboratory activities will be available in Moodle.
Distance students will have a compulsory residential school.
Week 8 Friday (13 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Within two weeks of each laboratory session.
Two weeks after submission
Students will be assessed on attendance, participation, report, test results, presentation skills, discussions and tasks specified in the lab information sheets given in the Moodle.
- Solve problems related to flow rates, pressures and forces for fluid systems
- Design mechatronics systems using pneumatic elements
- Communicate professionally using relevant technical terminology, symbols, and diagrams and effectively document calculations and solutions
- Work autonomously and as a team to analyse problems and present solutions.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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