Course Details
Applied Physics
Academic Year 2023/24
NBA007 course is part of 3 study plans
NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
NKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
NPA-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
Porous structure of matter, sorption isotherms, hydrostatics of three-phase systems, Fourier and Fick equations of heat and moisture tranport, combined transport of heat and moisture in porous building matters, classical Glaser’s condensation model, generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
1) Advanced computational methods of thermal resistance of building structures.
2) Advanced computational methods concerning condensation in building structures by means of generalised non-isothermal transport equations.
2) Advanced computational methods concerning condensation in building structures by means of generalised non-isothermal transport equations.
Knowledge
Studends will master advanced computational methods of thermal resistance of building structures and advanced computational methods concerning condensation in building structures by means of generalised non-isothermal transport equations.
Syllabus
1. Types of pores, porosity, absolute and relative humidity, physisorption and chemisorption.
2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
13 Acoustics of inner spaces.
2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
13 Acoustics of inner spaces.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of physics, basic knowledge of mathematical analysis, basic knowledge of building thermal technology, basic knowledge of acoustics of inner spaces.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Types of pores, porosity, absolute and relative humidity, physisorption and chemisorption.
2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
13 Acoustics of inner spaces.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Topics and content of laboratory exercises:
1. Determination of heat capacity of solids by means of calorimeter (measurement)
2. Determination of coefficient of heat expansion of solids (measurement)
3. Determination of heat conduction of brick by means of non-stationary method (measurement)
4. Determination of adiabatic Poisson’s constant of air (measurement)
5. Determination of heat factor of heat pump (measurement)
6. Determination of frequency dependence of sound absorptivity (measurement)
7. Frequency analysis of sound (measurement)
8. Reverberation time in a room (measurement)
9. Determination of roughness of fracture surfaces by means of the confocal microscope
Throughout the semester students solve a set of numerical problems and continuously provide their results to teachers to check the results.