Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

Undergraduate

Principles of environmental air quality and occupant comfort control. Psychrometric analysis of buildings as applied to common air distribution system designs. Current solar radiation estimation techniques and other energy transfer mechanisms; their application to cooling and heating load calculations. Analytical and numerical calculations. Computational tools. (Prerequisite: MECH-3217.) (3 lecture, 1 laboratory/tutorial hours a week.)