Advanced Transport Phenomena

by John C. Slattery

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press
ISBN: 0521635659

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Book Description

This text discusses the fundamental processes of momentum, energy, and mass transfer and lays the foundation for understanding a wide variety of operations used by engineers. The book is arranged in three parallel parts covering the major topics of momentum, energy, and mass transfer. Each part begins with the theory, followed by illustrations using the theory to obtain fairly complete solutions, and concludes with averaging methods used to obtain approximate solutions. A broad range technologically important examples and numerous exercises are provided throughout the text. Intended for first-year graduate engineering students, the book will be equally useful as a reference for researchers. Solutions manual available.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of notation

• Kinematics
• Foundations for momentum transfer
• Differential balances in momentum transfer
• Integral averaging in momentum transfer
• Foundations for energy transfer
• Differential balances in energy transfer
• Integral averaging in energy transfer
• Foundations for mass transfer
• Differential balances in mass transfer
• Integral averaging in mass transfer
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.

Customer Reviews

Transport Phenomena is a traditionally hard-subject in every curriculum related to unit operations in chemical engineering. Its difficult because of its mathematical basis, and moreover, by the lack of practical insight. The appendices and first chapters depicts the major mathematical foundations. Separated subjects (momentum, energy and mass transfer) makes easy to the reader just getting what he needs. Focusing on problem solving, shows the way previous knowledge integrates a new approach: governing laws, math techniques, effects of geometry and scale, time dependent processes and averaging techniques. definitely, this book is an obliged read to whom really likes engineering.