Course Details

Applied Physics

Academic Year 2025/26

NBA007 course is part of 3 study plans

​ NPA-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NKC-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.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Michal Matysík, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Physics

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of physics, basic knowledge of mathematical analysis, basic knowledge of building thermal technology, basic knowledge of acoustics of inner spaces.

Aims

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.
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.

Basic Literature

T. Ficker, Příručka stavební tepelné techniky, akustiky a denního osvětlení, CERM, Brno, 2004 (cs)
T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul1, Vedení tepla ve stavebních konstrukcích, FAST VUT, 2008 - skriptum. (cs)
T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul 3, Tepelné záření ve stavebních konstrukcích, FAST VUT, Brno, 2004 - skriptum. (cs)
T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul 4, Akustika vnitřních prostor, FAST VUT, Brno, 2004 - skriptum (cs)

Recommended Reading

Literatura doporučená studentům je totožná s literaturou základní k tomuto předmětu. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289556

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.