Fundamentals Of Engineering Thermodynamics

This revised and fully updated text, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of classical thermodynamics starting with the most elementary ideas of heat and temperature. The book also focuses on practical applications of thermodynamic processes and equips students with simple techniques of solving engineering problems. The book begins with the basic concepts of properties of matter, work, mechanical energy, potential energy and temperature, and then moves on to explain the laws of thermodynamics. It continues to discuss in detail the auxiliary functions, properties of substances, thermodynamics of combustion, ideal cycles and internal combustion engine cycles. The book concludes with a chapter on Brayton Cycle.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1 WHAT IS THERMODYNAMICS?
Chapter 2 CONCEPTS OF THERMODYNAMICS
Chapter 3 WORK AND MECHANICAL ENERGY
Chapter 4 TEMPERATURE AND ITS EMPIRICAL SCALES
Chapter 5 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Chapter 6 ENERGY (FIRST LAW) EQUATION FOR FLOW SYSTEMS
Chapter 7 THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Chapter 8 AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS
Chapter 9 PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES
Chapter 10 THERMODYNAMICS OF COMBUSTION
Chapter 11 IDEAL CYCLES
Chapter 12 INTERNAL COMBUSTION (I.C.) ENGINE CYCLES
Chapter 13 BRAYTON CYCLE AND ITS OTHER NAMES
Appendices
A. Additional Problems
B. Explanatory Notes
C. Problem-Solving
D. Some Mathematical Principles
E. Other Formulations of Thermodynamics
F. Steam and R–12 Tables
Bibliography • Index