An h-s diagram of a non-ideal Brayton cycle and a simplified gas turbine schematic. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky
MIT Course Number
16.050
As Taught In
Fall 2002
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is taught in four main parts. The first is a review of fundamental thermodynamic concepts (e.g. energy exchange in propulsion and power processes), and is followed by the second law (e.g. reversibility and irreversibility, lost work). Next are applications of thermodynamics to engineering systems (e.g. propulsion and power cycles, thermo chemistry), and the course concludes with fundamentals of heat transfer (e.g. heat exchange in aerospace devices).