Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: 'C' or better in (ME EN 3700 OR ME EN 3710) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
Corequisites: 'C' or better in (ME EN 3650 OR ME EN 4610).
Course Attribute:
Sustainability
Description
Design of steam-power plants, feed-water heater systems, pumping systems, compressor blades, turbine blades, and heat exchangers. Equation fitting and economic analysis as basis of design decisions. Optimization of thermal systems using Lagrange multipliers, search methods, dynamic programming, geometric programming, and linear programming. Probabilistic approaches to design.