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Courses » Transport Phenomena

Transport Phenomena

ABOUT THE COURSE

This is a fundamental subject for all Chemical Engineering students and is also important in disciplines as diverse as Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. Over the last few decades, the subject has revolutionized the way engineering science is taught. This course deals with the unified treatment of the different transport processes, ubiquitous in industry as well as in nature. Momentum, heat and mass transfer are taught together due to the underlying similarities of the mathematics and molecular mechanisms describing such processes. The students will be made aware of the core scientific connections and will be encouraged to solve problems based on relevant analogies.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
  • Chemical
  • Mechanical
  • Biotechnology
  • Nanotechnology
PRE-REQUISITES 
  • Undergraduate level courses in Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • An introduction to Mass Transfer is preferable. 

INDUSTRY SUPPORT – LIST OF COMPANIES/INDUSTRY THAT WILL RECOGNIZE/VALUE THIS ONLINE COURSE
Most of the process industries recognize this as a fundamental course dealing with the unified treatment of seemingly different transport operations. The concepts will enhance the lateral thinking capabilities of the students and seamlessly integrate the concepts for their use in a multitude of processes and problems. This aspect will also be of value to the upcoming technology driven companies involved in micro-device fabrication, sensors, and in the general microfluidics domain.

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COURSE INSTRUCTOR 


Prof. Sunando DasGupta is a professor of Chemical Engineering and was the Dean of Sponsored Research at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from the Jadavpur university, Masters from IIT Kanpur and PhD from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in 1992. His research interests are in the fields of microscale transport processes and microfluidics and he has over 130 publications in peer reviewed journals. Prof. DasGupta is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, has received the Herdillia Award by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering and is a Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Fundamental concepts in momentum transfer, shell balance, governing equations and relevant            
                boundary conditions
 .
Week 2: Formulation and solution of momentum transfer in laminar flow.

Week 3: Navier-Stokes  equation and its applications, solutions of momentum transfer problems in different                   
                geometries
Week 4: Formulation and solution of heat transfer in laminar flow 

Week 5: Development and use of energy equation 

Week 6: Transient conduction - lumped capacitance, analytical solutions and other methods.

Week 7: Formulation and solution of mass transfer in laminar flow. Development and use of species balance
               equation
Week 8: Introduction to convective flow, natural convection, relevant examples from heat and mass transfer

Week 9: Boundary Layer concepts, boundary layer thicknesses (disturbance, displacement and                                         
                 momentum), Blasius solution for flow over a flat plate
Week 10: Use of momentum integral equation, turbulent boundary layers, fluid flow about  immersed bodies, drag                   

Week 11: Mathematical treatment of the similarities between heat, mass and momentum transfer,
                   similarity parameters, and relevant analogies.

Week 12: Solution of coupled heat, mass and momentum transfer problems based on analogy.

SUGGESTED READING

 1. Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot (Wiley)

        2. Transport Phenomena Fundamentals by J. L. Plawsky (CRC Press)

        3. Heat and Mass Transfer – A Transport Phenomena Approach by K. S. Gandhi (New Age)

          4. Fluid Mechanics by R. W. Fox, P. J. Pritchard and A. T. McDonald (Wiley)

 5. Introduction to Heat and Mass Transfer by F. P. Incropera and D. P. DeWitt (Wiley)

CERTIFICATION EXAM 

  • The exam is optional for a fee. Exams will be on 22 October 2017.
  • Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
  • Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score.
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT KHARAGPUR. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc