635-2044/03 – PC support in thermal engineering (PPTEP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Mario Machů, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Mario Machů, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2023/2024 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
On the basis of analytical model the student will be able to numerically solve using the PC the simple as well as complicated problems in the filed of thermal processes including those in industrial thermal devices, walls of the residential buildings and during the fuel combustion. The student also will be capable of design a simple user applications useful for the customer who is not interested in detailed solution of the problem under consideration.
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Summary
The main goal of this course is to make the students familiar with some basic function of the Microsoft Office Excel software and to teach the students to take advantage of this software in the numerical calculation of the problems in the filed of thermal processes including those in industrial thermal devices, walls of the residential buildings and during the fuel combustion. The lessons will be focused mainly on application of the mathematical, statistical and logical function of the Excel as well as on the application of the control elements useful for handle computation in the application form. The basic graphical capability of the Excel will be used for the presentation of the computation results Part of the course will be the VBA programming language.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Written test
E-learning
Other requirements
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• MS Excel essentials. Cells labelling, absolute and relative references, data validation, the design of user application using the control elements of the form. Practical example from the field of the thermal processes.
• The design of the tables in the MS Excel environment, the auto-searching methods. Practical example from the field of the thermal processes.
• Approximation of thermophysical properties by regression functions.
• Use of logic functions in convective heat transfer using critical equations.
• The determination of the extreme values of a function and the equations roots. Practical example from the field of the thermal processes.
• The principle of stationary heat conduction by iterative method.
• The processing of the measured data. The statistics essentials – the moving average, the median, t-test, and the like. Data filtering.
• Design of results presentation, pictures and graphs. Creating static and interactive graphs.
• The finite element analysis. The mesh design, the determination of the sample time. The influence of the different kind of the boundary conditions on the computation results.
• Using macros in MS Excel - View card developer, creating macros, use the the control elements of the form.
• Basics of programming in VBA - Sub and Function, variable declarations, creation of custom formulas. Creating and using supplements.
• A method InputBox Excel and VBA, the function MsgBox of VBA, work with objects Range
• Design With-End With, For Each-Next, GoTo, If-Then, Select Case. Object variable.
• Error handling.
• Creation of user forms.
• Creating technical text in MS Word.
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