CHBE554: Momentum, heat and mass transfer

• Lecture 0: Scalars, vectors and tensors: notations, operations, systems of coordinates
• Lecture 1: Viscosity and molecular mechanisms of momentum transport
• Lecture 2: Thermal conductivity and molecular mechanisms of energy transport
• Lecture 3: Diffusivity and molecular mechanisms of mass transport
• Lecture 4: Shell momentum balance and velocity distribution in laminar flows
• Lecture 5: Shell energy balance and temperature distribution in solids and laminar flows
• Lecture 6: Shell mass balance and concentration distribution in solids and laminar flows
• Lecture 7: The equations of change for isothermal systems
• Lecture 8: The equations of change for non-isothermal systems
• Lecture 9: The equations of change for multi-component systems
• Lecture 10: Velocity distributions with more than one independent variable
• Lecture 11: Temperature distributions with more than one independent variable
• Lecture 12: Concentration profiles with more than one independent variable
• Lecture 13: Introduction to turbulence
• Lecture 14: Friction factors
• Lecture 15: Heat transfer coefficients
• Lecture 16: Mass transfer coefficients
• Lecture 17: Macroscopic momentum transfer
• Lecture 18: Macroscopic energy transfer

• Assignment 0: warm-up with mathematical operators, due on Thursday Jan 21st, end of lecture.
  Overall easy to moderately difficult, question 9 might be a bit challenging !
• Assignment 1: momentum, heat and mass transfer at the molecular level, due on Tuesday Feb 2nd, end of lecture.
  Relatively easy in general.
• Assignment 2: momentum, heat and mass shell balances, due on Tuesday Feb 16th, end of lecture.
  General application of what we learnt over lectures 4, 5 and 6.
• Assignment 3: momentum, heat and mass transfer with one or more variables, due on Thursday Mar 17th, end of lecture.
  Problems of variable level of difficulty, covering lectures 7 to 12.

• Assignment 4: momentum, heat and mass transfer coefficients.
  Lectures 14, 15 and 16.
• Assignment 5: macroscopic momentum and heat transfer.
  Lectures 17 and 18.

• solutions to assignment 0
• solutions to assignment 1
• solutions to assignment 2
• solutions to assignment 3
• solutions to assignment 4
• solutions to assignment 5

• Examples of mid-term exams from previous years.
  Please note that these exams lasted 2.5hours while ours will last 1hour and 30min only.
• Examples of final exams: Example1 and Example2 from previous years.
  Please note that these exams lasted 3hours while ours will last 2hours only.