Advanced Transport Phenomena

P. A. Ramachandran is a Professor in the Department of Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering at Washington University, St Louis. He has extensive teaching experience, mainly in transport phenomena, mathematical methods and chemical reaction engineering, and he has also held many visiting appointments at various international institutions. He has written or co-written two previous books, as well as over 200 journal articles in which he has pioneered many new concepts and computational tools for modelling of chemical reactors. He is the recipient of the Moulton Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK, the NASA certificate of recognition, USA, and the NEERI award from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, India.

1. Introduction; 2. Examples of transport and system models; 3. Flow kinematics; 4. Forces and their representation; 5. Equations of motion and Navier-Stokes equation; 6. Illustration flow problems; 7. Energy balance equation; 8. Illustrative heat transport problems; 9. Equations of mass transfer; 10. Illustrative mass transfer problems; 11. Analysis and solution of transient transport processes; 12. Convective heat and mass transfer; 13. Coupled transport problems; 14. Scaling and perturbation analysis; 15. More flow analysis; 16. Bifurcation and stability analysis; 17. Turbulent flow analysis; 18. More convective heat transfer; 19. Radiation heat transfer; 20. More convective mass transfer; 21. Mass transfer: multicomponent systems; 22. Mass transport in charged systems.