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Courses » Transport Phenomena In Materials

Transport Phenomena In Materials

ABOUT THE COURSE: 

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.

CORE/ELECTIVE: Core

UG/PG: PG

PREREQUISITES: Mathematics courses at 1st year UG level.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: 

Tata Steel, JSW, Vedanta, Aditya Birla Group, Murugappa Group, Amalgamations Group, TCS etc.,

300 students have enrolled already!!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:



Gandham Phanikumar doctoral work is on heat transfer, fluid flow and solute transfer during laser processing of dissimilar metals. After joining IIT Madras in 2005, he has been teaching a UG core course on transport phenomena for several years. His research continues to involve concepts of transport phenomena in materials processing.

Further details are at https://mme.iitm.ac.in/gphani/

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week1: Mathematical foundations of transport phenomena, introduction to subscript notation & tensors
Week2: Control volume formulation and concept of balance
Week3: Navier-Stokes equations, exact solutions for simple geometries
Week4: Friction factors, empirical relations in fluid flow
Week5: Application of fluid flow solutions to materials processing
Week6: Governing equations for heat transfer, problem statements
Week7: Exact solutions for heat transfer problems
Week8: Empirical correlations, heat transfer coupled with fluid flow


SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

1) Transport phenomena, 2nd Edition: R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N Lightfoot; John Wiley & Sons
 2) Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer, 4th Edition: James R. Welty, Charles E. Wicks, Robert E. Wilson and Gregory Rorrer; John Wiley & Sons
 3) Transport phenomena in materials processing : D.R. Poirier and G.H. Geiger, TMS
 4) Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 5th Edition: Robert W. Fox & Alan T. McDonald: John Wiley & Sons
 5) Basic Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering: Manabu Iguchi, Olusegun J. Ilegbusi; Springer
 6) Mass Transport in Solids and Fluids: David S. Wilkinson; Cambridge University Press.

CERTIFICATION EXAM:
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  •  Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) : Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April.
  • 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.

CERTIFICATION :
  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 6 out of 8 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 IITM It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.