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"The proposed book is an introductory text covering the fundamentals and applications of transport phenomena in a single volume. It aims to interlink mathematics with physical concepts by solving equations using numerical techniques and explaining their industrial applications. It thus provides a foundation for advanced courses in fluid mechanics, multiphase flows and turbulence. The supplements package of the book will have lecture slides and solutions to all of the practice problems in the book"--
List of contents
1. Introduction and dimensional analysis; 2. Dimensionless groups and correlations; 3. Diffusion and dispersion; 4. Unidirectional transport: Cartesian co-ordinates; 5. Unidirectional transport: curvilinear co-ordinates; 6. Pressure-driven flow; 7. Mass and energy conservation; 8.. Diffusion equation; 9 Forced convection; 10. Natural convection.
About the author
V. Kumaran is professor in the department of chemical engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the World Academy of Science. His research includes flow in biological systems such as tubes with flexible walls, kinetic theories for rapid granular flows, statistical mechanics, rheology in complex fluids and high Mach number gas dynamics.
Summary
Fluid-phase material transformations are essential to many engineering processes. This textbook provides a fundamental understanding, and develops methods for estimating, how the outcome of transformation processes is determined by heat/mass transfer and fluid flow.
