Module 3
Module 3
• If, as a special case, even energy is not allowed to cross the boundary, that
system is called an isolated system.
• An open system, or a control volume, as it is often called, is a
properly selected region in space. It usually encloses a device that
involves mass flow such as a compressor, turbine, or nozzle. Flow
through these devices is best studied by selecting the region within
the device as the control volume. Both mass and energy can cross
the boundary of a control volume.
• Another way to think about the RTT is that it is a link between the system approach
and the control volume approach:
Reynolds Transport Theorem (RTT)
• Reynolds Transport Theorem States that time rate of increase of
property N within a control mass system is equal to the time rate
of increase of property within the control volume plus the net
rate of efflux of the property across the control surface. For a
fixed control volume,
Mass Momentum Energy
N, Extensive m mV E
properties
η, Intensive 1 V e
properties
Conservation of Mass: Continuity Equation in
integral form
• The mathematical form of mass conservation applied to a system is
written as,
• Similar to “mass flux”, the second term in the above equation can be
represented as momentum flux given by the following equation
• If the cross -section is one - dimensional, then V and are uniform
over the area