Transport Phenomena Syllabus

Topics which have not been in­di­cated by the course in­struc­tor are given by

The num­bers in [ ] de­note the sec­tion of Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot (2007) where the topic may be found.

Unit I

• Newton’s law of vis­cos­ity
• Non–Newtonian flu­ids
• Pressure & tem­per­a­ture de­pen­dence of vis­cos­ity
• Estimation of vis­cos­ity from crit­i­cal prop­er­ties.
• Shell mo­men­tum bal­ances
• Boundary con­di­tions
• Flow of a falling film
• Flow through:
  • A cir­cu­lar tube
  • An an­nu­lar re­gion
• Creeping flow along a solid sphere

Unit II

• Time de­riv­a­tives
• The equa­tion of con­ti­nu­ity
• The equa­tion of mo­tion
• The equa­tions of change in:
  • Cartesian co-or­di­nates
  • Curvilinear co-or­di­nates
• Use of the equa­tions of change to set up steady flow prob­lems

Unit III

• Unsteady vis­cous flow
• Flow near a wall sud­denly set in mo­tion
• Flow near solid sur­faces by the bound­ary layer the­ory

Unit IV

• Shell en­ergy bal­ances
• Temperature pro­files
• Average tem­per­a­ture
• Energy fluxes at sur­faces
• Non-isothermal
  • Equations of change
  • Equation of con­ti­nu­ity
  • Equation of mo­tion for
    • Forced con­vec­tion
    • Free con­vec­tion
  • Equation of en­ergy

Unit V

• Definitions of con­cen­tra­tions
• Velocities
• Mass fluxes
• Fick’s law of dif­fu­sion
• Temperature & pres­sure de­pen­dence of mass dif­fu­siv­ity
• Maxwell’s law of dif­fu­sion
• Shell mass bal­ance
  • Boundary con­di­tions
• Diffusion
  • Through a stag­nant gas film
  • With het­ero­ge­neous chem­i­cal re­ac­tions
  • With ho­mo­ge­neous chem­i­cal re­ac­tion
  • Into a falling liq­uid film

Specifics

The book fol­lowed is Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot (2007).

The fol­low­ing chap­ters have been in­di­cated:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
  • Only
    • 4.1
• Chapter 9
  • Upto sec­tion 5
• Chapter 10
  • Not :-
    • 10.5
    • 10.7
    • 10.8
    • 10.9 (replace with 11.3)
• Chapter 11
  • Only
    • 11.3 (instead of 10.9)
• Chapter 17
  • Upto
    • Section 2
  • Also
    • 17.9
• Chapter 18

References