Textbook
Levenspiel, Octave. Understanding Engineering Thermo. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780135312032.
Further Readings
McQuiston, Faye, Jerald Parker, and Jeffrey Spitler. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design. 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780471470151.
Kreider, Jan, and Ari Rabl. Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Design for Efficiency. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1994. ISBN: 9780078347764.
Moran, Michael, and Howard Shapiro. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics. 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2007. ISBN: 9780471787358.
Incropera, Frank, David DeWitt, Theodore Bergman, and Adrienne Lavine. Introduction to Heat Transfer. 5th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2006. ISBN: 9780471457275.
Readings by Session
All chapters in the following table are from the Levenspiel textbook. The notes for Lec #11-22 are not available on MIT OpenCourseWare, except for Lec #15 and 16.
LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
---|---|---|
1 | Introduction, energy | Chapter 1, 2A, and 10 |
2 | Energy, work | Chapter 3A and 4A |
3 | Conservation of energy, heat | Chapter 3B and 4B |
4 | Energy conservation | Chapter 5A, 6A, and 7 |
5 | Water liquid and vapor | Chapter 8 and 12B |
6 | Water, refrigerants, gases | Chapter 12B-D, 2C, and 11 |
7 | Steady state flow | Chapter 13 |
8 | Heating and cooling systems | |
9 | Natural ventilation | |
10 | Transients, moist air mixtures | Chapter 14 and 2A |
11 | Psychrometrics | Notes |
12 | Quiz review | Notes |
13 | Quiz 1 | |
14 | Applications | Notes |
15 | Heat transfer introduction | Notes (PDF) |
16 | Conductive heat transfer, moisture transfer in walls | Notes (PDF) |
17 | Composite walls | Notes |
18 | Convection | |
19 | Introduction to design project 2: radiation | |
20 | Human comfort | Notes |
21 | Quiz 2 | |
22 | Solar radiation, windows | Notes |
23 | Introduction to the second law | Chapter 15 |
24 | Entropy, cogeneration systems | Chapter 18A, C-E, and 20A-C |
25 | Heat pumps, refrigeration cycles | Chapter 16, 17A, and 20D |
26 | Tour: Building 68, Koch Biology Building; and Building N51, MIT Museum and the Digital Design Fabrication Group | Chapter 16, 17A, and 20D |
27 | Review |