ChE 620: Intermediate Transport Phenomena
Fall, 2002
MWF 8:50-9:40, 2239 Engineering Hall
Instructor
Michael Graham, Associate Professor
3010 Engineering Hall,
265-3780, graham@engr.wisc.edu, office hrs. TR 11-Noon
Objectives
This course is an advanced introduction to the physical principles of
transport phenomena and the methods for analyzing transport problems.
A primary goal of the course is help students build the knowledge
base required to understand the modern research literature.
Familiarity with the subject matter at the undergraduate chemical
engineering level will be helpful. Topics to be covered include:
- microscopic origins of diffusion; Brownian particle models
of Langevin and Einstein, random walk model
- general formulation of conservation laws, flux expressions
- scaling and asymptotic approximations; dimensional arguments
- point source and Fourier series solutions to diffusion
problems; time and length scales of diffusive behavior
- kinematics of deforming continua; conservation of momentum
- unidirectional and thin film flows
- inertialess (``creeping'') flow; effective properties of
suspensions
- convective momentum, heat and mass transfer; boundary layers
- transport of electrically charged
species; double layers; electrokinetic phenomena
- multicomponent transport; nonequilibrium thermodynamics
- topics of modern research, possibly including: transport in polymers, electro- and
magnetorheological fluids, suspensions, surface tension-driven
flows, issues in microfluidic technologies, dynamics of
turbulent flow, ...
Texts
- Required: W. M. Deen, Analysis of Transport
Phenomena, Oxford, 1998.
- Recommended: R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart and E. N. Lightfoot,
Transport Phenomena 2nd ed., Wiley, 2001.
Grading (tentative)
Two exams, each 25%, homework, 25%, term paper (literature review),
25%.
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