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Transport Phenomena

Syllabus

· Vector and tensor notation

· PART ONE: Momentum transport

o Viscosity and the mechanism of momentum transport

o Shell momentum balances and velocity distributions in laminar flow

o The equation of change for isothermal systems

o Velocity distribution with more than one independent variable

· PART TWO: Energy transport

o Thermal conductivity and the mechanisms of energy transport

o Shell energy balances and temperature distributions in solids and laminar flow

o The equation of change for non-isothermal systems

· PART THREE: Mass transport

o Diffusivity and the mechanisms of mass transport

o Concentration distributions in solids and in laminar flow

o The equation of change for multi-component systems

Marking Scheme

Reference Book

R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart and E. N. Lightfoot, “Transport Phenomena”, 2^nd Ed., Wiley, 2002.
H. Schlichting and K. Gersten, “Boundary layer theory”, 8^th Ed., Springer, 2000.

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