This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of transport processes in fluids, emphasizing convection and diffusion mechanisms that govern mass, heat, and momentum transfer. The course covers the following key topics:
- Introduction to transport processes.
- Dimensional analysis and its importance.
- Limitations of the unit operations approach.
- Diffusion mechanisms and coefficients from kinetic theory.
- Steady and unsteady diffusion in one-dimensional scenarios.
- Equivalence of heat, mass, and momentum transport.
- Transfer processes in cylindrical coordinates.
- Effects of pressure on fluid flow and oscillatory flow analysis.
- Free surface flows and the interplay of convection and diffusion.
- Derivation of balance laws for stationary control volumes.
- Diffusion in three dimensions and relevant laws.
- Computational solutions of diffusion-dominated flows.
By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the knowledge to analyze and solve various transport phenomena in different coordinate systems.