Engineering Experiment

Published: Friday, 14 October 2016 06:29

Appendix 1

Course: Engineering Experiment

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology

Degree: Master

Course units:

• Unit 1. The concept of engineer’s experiment.
• Unit 2. Similarity of physical phenomena and physical systems.
• Unit 3. Mathematical modeling in experimental research.
• Unit 4. Feature definition through experimental techniques.
• Unit 5. Designing first-order experiments.
• Unit 6. Designing second-order experiments.
• Unit 7. Optimized experiment design.
• Unit 8. Automated research systems.

Course contents:

Unit 1. The concept of engineer’s experiment.

• The aim and objectives of an experiment. Types of engineer’s experiments. The concept of efficiency.
• Stages of an experiment. Physics experiment and simulation experiment.

Unit 2. Similarity of physical phenomena and physical systems.

• Geometric similarity. Similarity of physical processes. Similarity of kinematic and dynamic mass transfer processes.

Unit 3. Mathematical modeling in experimental research.

• Physical and mathematical modeling principles. Development of physical models.
• Mathematical modelling. Types of math models and modeling principles. The strategy and stages of building a math model.

Unit 4. Feature definition through experimental techniques.

• Sampling and sample function. Statistical analysis of parameters.
• Statistical check of hypotheses.

Unit 5. Designing first-order experiments.

• The concept of experiment design. General design requirements. Design criteria. Essential factor identification methods.
• Full factorial designs and fractional factorial designs.
• Dispersion analysis and its application. Random balance method.

Unit 6. Designing second-order experiments.

• Design methods. Orthogonal central composite designs. Rotatable central composite designs.

Unit 7. Optimized experiment design.

• Designing an extremal experiment. Simplex method.

Unit 8. Automated research systems.

• Automated research systems. Software.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total hours – 180.

Total points – 5.

Classroom hours – 36.

Unsupervised hours – 108.

Midterm assessment – Examination.