College of Engineering Department

of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Thermodynamics in Buildings
Module Code: ASU_6_TDB

Dr. Ali Sedki
Email: ali.ali@asu.edu.bh
Room no:
Office Phone:
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Module Leader   Dr. Ali Sedki

College of Engineering/ Department of Civil and 
College/Department  Architectural Engineering 

Email ali.ali@asu.edu.bh

Phone Ext. 348

Location  EL Ekar Campus.

Pre‐requisite learning None

Co‐requisites None

Excluded combinations None

Module Administrator  Ms. Bayan Al Merbaty
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Description
• This module provides students with relevant the principles
of heat transfer, fluid flow and thermodynamics for
application to buildings and their engineering systems.

Aim
• The aim of this module is to provide students related
engineering backgrounds with an insight and understanding
of the fundamentals of heat transfer, fluid flow and
thermodynamics for application to buildings and their
engineering systems.
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Course content
• Steam cycles basic Rankine cycle, Rankine cycle with superheat and 
irreversibility, reheat, regeneration 
• Air standard cycles, Otto, Diesel, comparison to real cycles, Brayton 
cycle
• Refrigeration cycle and heat pumps (reversed Carnot, Vapor‐
compression)
• Dimensional analysis, internal & external flows, Lift/drag coefficients & 
Stokes law
• Viscous/Inertial forces and Reynolds number – Velocity profiles, 
Turbulence, Boundary layer, Poiseuille and Stokes Law
• Combustion ‐ Stoichiometric and non‐stoichiometric, types of flames, 
adiabatic flame temperature
• Heat Transfer heat equation (3D and time dependence), conduction 
resistance networks, applications, convection, Radiation.
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Learning Outcomes
A. Knowledge and Understanding
On completion of the module students will acquire knowledge 
and understanding of:
A1. the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid 
flow, applied to buildings.

B. Intellectual Skills
On completion of the module students will acquire and develop 
intellectual skills that will enable them to:
B1. critically appraise, analyse and solve numerical problems of a 
familiar or unfamiliar nature.
B2. interpret generated and collected numerical data.
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Learning Outcomes
C. Practical Skills
Students will acquire and develop practical skills so that they
can:
C1. conduct a thermodynamic, heat transfer, and/or fluid flow 
analysis of building thermal systems.

D. Transferable Skills
Students will acquire and develop transferrable skills so that 
they can:
D1. communicate effectively
D2. demonstrate numeracy, mathematical skills, and 
computational skills.
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Core Book
• Cengel Y. and Boles M., 2016.
Thermodynamics, An engineering
approach, SI version, 6th Ed, McGraw‐Hill.

• Bergman, T.L., Incropera, F.P., DeWitt, D.P. and Lavine, A.S., 2011. Fundamentals of 
heat and mass transfer. John Wiley & Sons.
• Massey, B.S. 2006. Mechanics of Fluids, 8th ed. Taylor & Francis, 
• Rogers, G. and Mayhew, Y. 1995 Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of Fluids, 
5th ed. Blackwell.
 College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Assessment Scheme
• Coursework including lab report (30%)
• Mid point Exam (30%)
• Final Exam (40%)
College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering Department
of Civil and Architectural Engineering