Basic Principles of Thermal-Fluid Sciences

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This is one of the two online chemical engineering bridging courses designed to prepare students with backgrounds in chemistry, biology, and other non-chemical engineering fields for graduate study in chemical engineering. This course is not open to undergraduate chemical engineering majors. The course covers core concepts of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Topics include properties of pure substance, first and second laws of thermodynamics, fluid statics, Bernoulli and energy equations, drag and lift during fluid flow, mechanisms of heat transfer, heat conduction, forced and natural convection, radiation heat transfer, and heat exchangers. Permission of department chair is required.