Mechanical Engineering

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- Mechanical Engineering: an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems.
(Wikipedia)

Mechanical Engineering - Resource Page

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Thermodynamics

fundamental science of classical thermodynamics and its practical applications, Problem solving, formulation, analytic and computational solutions, first law of thermodynamics, work, heat, properties of substances and state equations, second law and applications to engineering systems: resources, bibliography, study group

Engine and Emissions Control

fundamentals of how the design and operation of internal combustion engines affects their emissions and environmental impact, air pollution mechanism, emissions control techniques, instrumentation and techniques for measuring emissions

Internal Combustion Engine

design and operation of internal combustion engines, performance and fuel requirements, fluid flow, thermodynamics, combustion, heat transfer friction phenomena, fuel properties relevant to engine power, efficiency, and emissions, design features and operating characteristics of different types of internal combustion engines (spark-ignition, compression ignition)

Applied Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

flow systems encountered in engineering design: viscous flow in pipes, external flow (boundary layers),compressible flow, and turbomachines (pumps), thermodynamics of gas mixtures, psychometrics and air-conditioning processes

Mechanics of Fluids

Properties of fluids, (definition, Density, Viscosity, Surface tension, Compressibility), Hydrostatics (pressure distribution, Pressure measuring devices, Hydrostatic force, Equilibrium), Fluid in Motion (Continuity equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Momentum equation, Applications

Fluid Mechanics Lecture Notes (I)

Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes

photons, electrons, phonons, and molecules as energy carriers, fundamental understanding and descriptive tools for energy and heat transport processes from nanoscale continuously to macroscale: energy levels, statistical behavior and internal energy, energy transport, scattering, heat generation processes, Boltzmann equation, derivation of classical laws, deviation from classical laws at nanoscale, applications in nano- and microtechnology.

Control System Design

basic concepts from signals and related sampling concepts, modeling, linearization, dynamic system analysis and feedback control: design of feedback control systems and application of feedback control principles to engineering design, Single-input and single-output (SISO) control system design for engineering systems using frequency domain techniques, concepts of equilibrium and stability, state-space approaches to control system design, observers, introduction to digital control systems

Engineering Statics

methods of quantifying the forces between bodies, e.g. parts of mechanical structural and biological systems: Concentrated Forces and Their Effects, Complex Interactions Between Bodies, Engineering Systems - Single Body Equilibrium, Multiple Body Equilibrium - Frames ems, Multiple Body Equilibrium - Trusses

Fluid Mechanics

Fundamental concepts, Fluid Statics, Kinematics of Fluid Flow, Dynamics of Fluid Flow, Laminar and Turbulent Flows, Dimensional Analysis, Navier-Stokes Equations and Applications, Boundary Layer Theory and Applications, Pipe Flow Systems

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