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