3.185 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering

Readings

Welty, James, Charles E. Wicks, Robert E. Wilson, and Gregory L. Rorrer. Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer. 4th ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., January 2000. ISBN: 9780471381495.

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction

Diffiusion
2 1-D, Cylindrical Steady-State Diffusion 24.1, 25, 26.1
3 Homogeneous Chemical Reaction 26.2
4-5 Unsteady Diffusion 27.1-3
6 Boundary Conditions, Biot Number 26.1-2
7 Dimensional Analysis 11
Heat Conduction and Radiation
8 Introduction: Energy Conservation 15.1, 16
9 Transient Dimensional Analysis, Graphs 18
10 Finite Differences and the Heat Equation 18.3
11 Math Quiz, Multilayer Walls 15.5, 17.1
12 Moving Body (Convection)

13 Phase Change, Thermal Conductivity 21.1
14-16 Radiation Heat Transfer 23.1-10
17 Test 1: Diffusion and Heat Conduction (through lecture 11)

Fluid Dynamics
18 Intro, Viscosity 7.1-3
19-20 1-D Laminar Momentum Diffusion 8
21-22 Navier-Stokes Equations 4, 7.4, 9
23 Using the Navier-Stokes Equations Handout
24 Drag Coefficient on a Tube, Sphere 12.1-12.3
25 Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate 12.4-12.5
26 Drag Coefficient on a Flat Plate 12.5
27-28 Turbulent Flow Phenomena 13.1-2, 6-9 (Video: “Turbulence”, QC151.T8 in the Baker Video Collection)
Fluid Heat and Mass Transfer
29-30 Heat/Mass Flat Plate Boundary Layer 19.1-4, 7, 20.3
31 Test 2: Radiation, Fluid Flow (through lecture 25)

32-33 Natural Convection, Boundary Layers 20.1
34 Stream Function, Vorticity 10.2
35 Inviscid Flow, Bernoulli Equation 6.3
36-37 Batch and Continuous Flow Reactors Handout
38 Process Cost Modeling Handout
39 Final Review Handout
40 Final Exam Period

Course Info

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Course Introduction
Problem Sets with Solutions
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