Transport Phenomena in Materials

Overview

This course will introduce the concepts of fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer with behavior and processing of engineering materials as the focus.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Undergraduate students of Metallurgical / Materials Engineering and related disciplines.PREREQUISITES : Mathematics courses at 1st year UG level.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Tata Steel, JSW, Vedanta, Aditya Birla Group, Murugappa Group, Amalgamations Group, TCS etc.,

Syllabus

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1 : Mathematical foundations of transport phenomena, introduction to subscript notation & tensorsWeek 2 : Control volume formulation and concept of balanceWeek 3 : Navier-Stokes equations, exact solutions for simple geometriesWeek 4 : Friction factors, empirical relations in fluid flowWeek 5 : Application of fluid flow solutions to materials processingWeek 6 : Governing equations for heat transfer, problem statementsWeek 7 : Exact solutions for heat transfer problemsWeek 8 : Empirical correlations, heat transfer coupled with fluid flow
Week 9 : Mass balance equations, governing equations
Week 10 : Diffusive mass transfer, exact solutions for simple geometries
Week 11 : Solute transfer during phase change
Week 12 : Convective mass transfer correlations, Similarity across transport phenomena