Transport properties; shell balances; Navier-Stokes equations; steady and unsteady viscous flows; turbulent flows; shell and differential thermal energy balances; steady and unsteady conduction; laminar, forced and natural convection; shell balances of mass of species; diffusion under various driving forces,; diffusion with chemical reaction; convective diffusion in dilute solutions; integral balances.

Book References:

• Bird, R.B, Stewart, W.E. and Lightfoot, E.N., Transport Phenomena, Wiley, 1994.
• Denn, M.M, Process Fluid Mechanics, Prentice Hall, 1980.
• Whitaker, S., Fundamental Principles of Heat Transfer, NewYork, Pergammon, 1997.
• Cussler, E, L., Diffusion. Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, Cambridge, 1985.

Outline

Video lectures
Fundamentals of Transport Processes 1 NPTEL YouTube

Course notes

1. Chapter 1: Dimensional analysis
2. Chapter 2: Diffusion
3. Chapter 3: Unidirectional transport.
4. Chapter 4: Conservation equationa.
5. Chapter 5: Diffusion dominated transport.
6. Chapter 6: Transport in strong convection.
7. Chapter 7: Kinematics.
8. Chapter 8: Navier-Stokes equations.
9. Chapter 9: Viscous flows.
10. Chapter 10: Potential flows.
11. Chapter 11: Boundary layer theory.

Exercises
Fundamentals of Transport Processes 1  
Fundamentals of Transport Processes 2  

Introduction to kinetic theory; statistical mechanics of ideal gases; classical mechanics; statistical kinetic theory; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; Correlation functions; linear response theory; theory of Brownian motion; projection operator formalism; hydrodynamic fluctuations.