NPTEL Syllabus

Transport Phenomena - Video

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COURSE OUTLINE

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Introduction, Conservation, fluid statics;

Fluid flow:Newton's law of viscosity, Non-newtonian fluids, continuity

equation, Navier-Stokes equations, Laminar flow, Turbulence and
experimental correlations, concept of friction factor, flow through
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porous media, fluidized bed.

Heat Transfer: Heat conduction - Fourier's law - steady state Metallurgy and Material
conduction - plane wall - cylindrical wall - application in estimating
heat losses from furnaces - unsteady state conduction - Heisler's Science
charts - Thermally thick and thin bodies - application in heat
treatement - solidification. Convection - Introduction of boundary
layer concept - heat transfer coefficient - correlation for external flow
and internal flow - problems from pipe flow - cooling systems in
Pre-requisites:
reactors - continuous casting cooling system - free convection
correlations - heat losses from hot surfaces . Radiation - definitions -
black body - grey body - view factor between surfaces - problems Basic engineering mathematics.
from furnaces, reactors in used in materials processing - radiation
partial differential equations and solutions.
shields Case studies invovling multimode heat transfer in materials
processing. vector algebra.
Fick's Law of diffusion - advection due to diffusion - case of
evaporation of liquid through a column, Analog between mass and Additional Reading:
heat transfer - mass transfer coefficient - application in gas-solid
reactions such as oxidation, reduction etc. 1. "Transport Phenomena and Materials
Processing" - Sindo Kou, John Wiley &
Sons Inc.
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2. "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics" - Fox and
McDonald, Wiley Student edition.
Topics Instructor Hours
Hyperlinks:
Momentum Transfer: (16 = 8P + 8V)
1. http://mme.iitm.ac.in/gphani/transport/tplinks

Conservation Vichu 2 Coordinators:

Dr. G. Phanikumar
Department of Metallurgical & Materials
Shell Balance Equations Phani 2 EngineeringIIT Madras

Prof. N.N. Viswanathan

Department of Metallurgical Engineering and
Navier Stokes Equation Phani 2 Materials ScienceIIT Bombay

Case Studies with analytical solutions Phani 3

Introduction to Turbulence Phani 1

Mechanical Energy Balance Vichu 2

Friction Factor Vichu 1

 Pipe Flow Vichu 1

Packed bed and Fluidized bed Vichu 2

Heat Transfer: (17 = 9P + 8V)

Governing equation for heat transfer Phani 1

Conduction in solids Phani 5

Solidification Phani 1

Free Convection Phani 2

Boundary Layer Vichu 2

Forced convection Vichu 2

Heat transfer in packed bed Vichu 1

Radiation Vichu 3

Mass Transfer: (13 = 6P + 7V)

Governing equation for mass transfer Phani 1

Diffusion in fluids Vichu 2

Diffusion in solids Phani 2

Kirkendall Effect Vichu + Phani 2

Segregation during solidification Phani 1

Mass transfer coefficient Phani 2

Case studies of oxidation and Vichu 3

reduction

Total 46

References:
 1. "Transport Phenomena" (2nd Edition) -R. Byron Bird, Warren E.
Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, Publishers: John Wiley.

2. "Transport Phenomena in Metallurgy", -G.H. Geiger and D.R.

Poirier, TMS.

3. "Heat and Mass Transfer" - Frank P. Incropera and David P.

DeWitt., Wiley Student Edition.

4. "Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer" - James

R. Welty, Charles E. Wicks, Robert E. Wilson, Gregory Rorrer,
Wiley Student Edition.

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