CHE3111

Transport phenomena I

3 points · 24 lectures · First semester · Clayton · Prerequisites: MAT2910, MAT2920 and CHE2100

Objectives The student is expected to acquire a basic knowledge and understanding of the more fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics and the analogies with heat transfer. The student is expected to become more proficient in the ability to use mathematics to analyse relatively complicated physical systems.

Synopsis Transfer coefficients - viscosity, thermal conductivity and diffusivity. Newton's law of viscosity, Fourier's law of heat conduction, Fick's law of diffusion. Analogies of three transfer processes. Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Conservation laws - mass, momentum and energy. Steady state shell mass, momentum and energy balances - applications. Derivations of equations of change for isothermal systems - Cartesian coordinates. Generalisation of these to vector/tensor form using arbitrary volume element. Solutions to multivariable flow problems.

Assessment Examinations: 85% · Assignments: 15%

Prescribed texts

Bird R B and others Transport phenomena Wiley, 1960

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