The second law is still rarely used as a design decision tool. However, information obtained from second law analysis is valuable in the design process for thermodynamic systems.
This investigation reviews the past development of second law analysis. A clear, operational vocabulary is established. Then two examples of microcomputer-based design procedures are presented. The first is a second law analysis of refrigeration cycles. As a part of this example, the correlation of physical property data by simple methods is demonstrated. The second example is a second law analysis of gas turbine systems.
The salient point is that all of this can be done on a microcomputer, and consequently is readily available to any engineer. / M.S.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/106057 |
| Date | January 1985 |
| Creators | Rieves, Regina Dugan |
| Contributors | Mechanical Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | xii, 223 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 13047064 |
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