Transport Phenomena Engr 322

Spring Semester 2002

Textbook: Introduction to Transport Phenomena

by William J. Thomson, Prentice-Hall, 2000

Reference books: Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, Second edition

by C.O. Bennett, and J.E. Myers, McGraw Hill, 1974

Transport Phenomena: A Unified Approach

Robert S. Brodkey and Harry S. Hershey, McGraw Hill, 1988 Transport Phenomena (2^nd Edition)

by R.B. Bird, W.E. Stewart, and E.N. Lightfoot, John Wiley, 2002

Course Outline:

1. Introduction

2. Transport Phenomena Laws

3. Molecular Energy Transport (including differential energy balance)

4. Molecular Mass Transport (including differential mass balance)

5. Molecular Momentum Transport (including differential momentum balance)

6. Similarity and Dimensional Analyses

7. Convective Transport in Laminar Flow

8. Turbulent Transport (Reynold's experiment)

9. Macroscopic Calculations: Momentum and Energy Transport (Friction factors and piping networks)

10. Other topics

Goals: The goal is to teach engineering students the basic ideas of momentum, heat, and mass transfer and their application to the solution of engineering problems. At the end of the course the student should be able to:

... Write and apply the constitutive equations (Fick's Law, Newton's Law, Fourier's Law etc.).

... Develop balance equations appropriate for a specified problem. ... Apply the mechanical energy balance equation to piping networks.

... Use dimensional analysis to determine the significant dimensional groups for a given problem.

... Solve an unfamiliar, open-ended problem, starting with limited information.

Requirements: Engineering thermodynamics

Physics

Calculus

Grading: 2 out of 4 quizzes (2 x 20) = 40%

Homework = 20%

Final = 40%