Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

1- Combustion

Program: Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program, Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program

Code: IMC804

Professor: Andrés Adolfo Amell Arrieta

Contents:

  • Property assessment of the combustion of fuels
  • Fundamentals in Thermochemistry, Chemical Balance, Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms of Pollutant Formation
  • Review of the Transport Equations and Fluid Flow Phenomena in Combustion Systems
  • Combustion Phenomena in Gaseous Fuels
  • Combustion Phenomena in Solid Fuels
  • Combustion Phenomena in Liquid Fuels
  • Diagnostics and Optimization of Combustion Systems 
  • New tendencies in combustion

 

2- Heat and Mass Transfer

Program: Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: IMC806

Professor: Yonatan Cadavid Sánchez

Contents:

  • Definitions, fundamental concepts
  • Heat transfer under steady state conditions (one, two and three-dimensional).
  • Conduction in transient state.
  • Numerical methods for the solution heat conduction problems.
  • Introduction to the convection and mass transfer.
  • Heat and mass transfer by forced convection.
  • Heat and mass transfer by free convection.
  • Radiation
  • Mass transfer by diffusion.
  • Heat Exchangers.

 

3- Thermodynamics II

Program: Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: IMC706

Professor: Iván Darío Bedoya Caro

Contents:

  • Direct thermodynamic cycles
  • Reverse thermodynamic cycles
  • Gas mixtures and psychrometrics
  • Combustion and chemical balance
  • Compressible flow

 

 

Postgraduate Courses

1- Combustion of gaseous fuels

Program: Energy emphasis Master´s Degree program in Engineering, Master´s Degree in Mechanical Engineering,

Code: 2528928

Professor: Andrés Adolfo Amell Arrieta

Contents:

  • Combustion Properties
  • Transport Phenomena
  • Species continuity Equation
  • Chemical Kinetics and reaction mechanisms 
  • Limit phenomenon, ignition, detonation, extinction
  • Laminar premixed Flames
  • Turbulent premixed and non-premixed flames

 

2- Simulation of heat systems

Program: Energy emphasis Master´s Degree in Engineering, Master´s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: 2528675

Profesor: Juan Camilo Lezcano Benítez

Contents:

  • Transport equations.
  • Meshing Techniques.
  • RANS type numerical models for the analysis of turbulent flows.
  • Numerical models for the analysis of the radiation
  • Numerical models for the analysis of combustion
  • Discretization diagrams of the transport equations
  • Utilization of FLUENT for the study of thermal systems (Case Study).

 

3- Advanced Heat Engine Machines

Program: Energy emphasis Master´s Degree in Engineering, Master´s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: 2528121

Professor:  Iván Darío Bedoya Caro

Contents:

  • Effective and indicated parameters
  • Spark-ignition engine combustion
  • Compression-ignition engine combustion
  • HCCI engine combustion
  • Simulation of RICE using FLUENT and CHENKIN

 

4- Research Methodology

Program: Energy emphasis Master´s Degree in Engineering, Master´s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: 2528151

Professor: Iván Darío Bedoya Caro

Contents:

  • Theory of Knowledge and the Scientific Research
  • National System of Science and Technology and Academic Communities
  • Structuring of the Scientific Information
  • Phases of Scientific Research and Introduction to Research Protocols

 

5- Seminar

Program: Energy emphasis Master´s Degree in Engineering, Master´s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Code: 2528251, 2576001, 2576004 and 2576007

Professor: Iván Darío Bedoya Caro