Course detail

Applied Physics

FAST-NBA007Acad. year: 2025/2026

Porous structure of matter, sorption isotherms, hydrostatics of three-phase systems, Fourier and Fick equations of heat and moisture tranport, combined transport of heat and moisture in porous building matters, classical Glaser’s condensation model, generalised Glaser’s condensation model.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Michal Matysík, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physics (FYZ)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of physics, basic knowledge of mathematical analysis, basic knowledge of building thermal technology, basic knowledge of acoustics of inner spaces.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

1) Advanced computational methods of thermal resistance of building structures.
2) Advanced computational methods concerning condensation in building structures by means of generalised non-isothermal transport equations.
Studends will master advanced computational methods of thermal resistance of building structures and advanced computational methods concerning condensation in building structures by means of generalised non-isothermal transport equations.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul 4, Akustika vnitřních prostor, FAST VUT, Brno, 2004 - skriptum (CS)
T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul 3, Tepelné záření ve stavebních konstrukcích, FAST VUT, Brno, 2004 - skriptum. (CS)
T. Ficker, Aplikovaná fyzika, modul1, Vedení tepla ve stavebních konstrukcích, FAST VUT, 2008 - skriptum. (CS)
T. Ficker, Příručka stavební tepelné techniky, akustiky a denního osvětlení, CERM, Brno, 2004 (CS)

Recommended reading

Literatura doporučená studentům je totožná s literaturou základní k tomuto předmětu. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPA-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Michal Matysík, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Types of pores, porosity, absolute and relative humidity, physisorption and chemisorption.
  • 2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
  • 3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
  • 4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
  • 5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
  • 6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
  • 7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
  • 8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
  • 9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
  • 10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
  • 11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
  • 12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
  • 13. Acoustics of inner spaces.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Michal Matysík, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Topics and content of laboratory exercises:

  • 1. Determination of heat capacity of solids by means of calorimeter (measurement)
  • 2. Determination of coefficient of heat expansion of solids (measurement)
  • 3. Determination of heat conduction of brick by means of non-stationary method (measurement)
  • 4. Determination of adiabatic Poisson’s constant of air (measurement)
  • 5. Determination of heat factor of heat pump (measurement)
  • 6. Determination of frequency dependence of sound absorptivity (measurement)
  • 7. Frequency analysis of sound (measurement)
  • 8. Reverberation time in a room (measurement)
  • 9. Determination of roughness of fracture surfaces by means of the confocal microscope

Throughout the semester students solve a set of numerical problems and continuously provide their results to teachers to check the results.