B.Tech Chemical Engineering

 

CL 305                             Transport Phenomena                          2-1-0-6

 

Syllabus: Introduction to transport phenomena; Vector and tensor calculus; Mechanisms of momentum transport: shell momentum balances, mass and momentum conservation equations for isothermal systems; Applications of differential equations of mass and momentum conservation for laminar flow; Potential flow; Boundary Layer theory; Mechanisms of energy transport: shell energy balances, temperature distribution in solids and in laminar flow; Equations of change for non-isothermal systems; Applications of equations of change; Mechanisms of mass transport: shell mass balances and its applications, multi-component systems; Simultaneous heat, mass and momentum transfer.

 

Text:

  1. R. Bird, E. W. Stewart, N. E. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

References:

  1. M. Dean, Analysis of Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2010.
  2. G. Leal, Advanced Transport Phenomena, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  3. S. Gandhi, Heat and Mass Transfer: A Transport Phenomena Approach, New Age International Publishers, 2011.