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 |