3 Credit Hours

Advanced course in heat and mass transfer and fluid mechanics, including conservation and constitutive equations, scaling and solution methods for handling boundary value problems, and coupling of chemical reaction/adsorption with diffusion and fluid flow.

Course Prerequisite

Undergraduate transport courses or instructor permission.

Course Objectives

The objective of this advanced course is to provide to the student a sufficient background to be able to understand the fundamental phenomena, governing equations and assumptions used in the analysis of transport processes. We address aspects of three fundamental transport processes, momentum, heat and mass, including conservation and constitutive equations, and solution methods to solve a variety of problems.

Course Topics

• Math refresher (Vectors & tensors)
• Intro to fluids
• Conservation laws (Deen Ch. 1)
• Constitutive laws (Deen Ch. 1&2)
• Scaling and dimensional analysis (Deen Ch. 3)
• Navier-Stokes in fluid mechanics (Deen Ch. 6)
• Lubrication approximation (Deen Ch. 7)
• Creeping flow (Deen Ch. 8)
• Stream functions (Deen Ch. 8)
• Boundary layer theory (Deen Ch. 9)
• Inviscid/potential flows (Deen Ch. 9)
• Heat & mass transfer (Deen Ch. 2&3)
• Perturbation analysis (Deen Ch. 4)
• Similarity solution
• Convection heat/mass transfer in confined flows (Deen Ch. 10)
• Convection heat/mass transfer in unconfined flows (Deen Ch. 11)

Course Requirements

Task	Percentage
Midterms (x2)	60%
Final exam	30%
Homework	10%

Textbook

Deen, William M.,  Analysis of Transport Phenomena, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN-10: 0199740283 | ISBN-13: 978-0199740284 |

Updated: 11/17/2025.