3 Credit Hours

NM

Nancy Moore

Assoc Teaching Professor

919-513-3562 njmoore3@ncsu.edu

This course places emphasis on the analysis and design of power and refrigeration cycles and the application of the basic principles to engineering design problems with systems involving mixtures of ideal gases, psychrometrics, non-ideal gases, chemical reactions, combustion, chemical equilibrium, and one-dimensional compressible flow.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Computing – MATLAB and a grade of C- or better in Thermal-Fluid Sciences.

Course Objectives

The students will be asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the material covered in MAE 302 through their mastery of the following course objectives:

• Sketch fi gures of systems and control volumes;
• Sketch process diagrams for the processes occurring within systems and control volumes;
• Develop the governing equations for conservation of mass, conservation of energy, and process relations for processes occurring in systems and control volumes;
• Determine the required thermodynamic properties from tables for real substances (water and refrigerant 134a), tables for ideal gases, and equations of state for ideal gases. substitute these property values with units into the governing equations and simplify;
• Analyze ideal gas power cycles to perform energy balances, determine heat and work transfers, and calculate the cycle effi ciency;
• Analyze steam power cycles to perform energy balances, determine heat and work transfers, and calculate the cycle effi ciency;
• Analyze vapor compression refrigeration cycles to perform energy balances, determine heat and work transfers, and calculate the cycle coeffi cient of performance;
• Calculate properties of ideal gas mixtures;
• Determine the properties of dry air-water vapor mixtures, plot processes on a psychrometric chart, and analyze process involving dry air-water vapor mixtures to perform energy and mass balances for the processes;
• Determine balanced chemical reaction equations and analyze typical combustion processes to perform energy balances to determine the heat transfer released or estimate the maximum possible product gas temperature during combustion;
• Calculate stagnation properties of high-speed fl ows and apply these properties to isentropic fl ow through nozzles and to the process occurring across a normal shock wave.

Course Requirements

Textbook

Y. A. Çengel, M. A. Boles and Mehmet Kanoglu, Thermodynamics: an Engineering Approach (Packet including Property Table Booklet), 10th Ed, The McGraw Hill Companies, New York, 2023. Either book or ebook.

Created: 2/17/2026.