A Modern Course in Transport Phenomena

David C. Venerus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His research interests are in the areas of transport phenomena in soft matter, polymer science and the rheology of complex fluids. Professor Venerus has received numerous teaching awards both within the Department and College of Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and of the Society of Rheology. Hans Christian Öttinger is Professor of Polymer Physics at the ETH Zürich. His main research interest is in developing a general framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics as a tool for describing dissipative classical and quantum systems. He is the author of Stochastic Processes in Polymeric Fluids (1996), Beyond Equilibrium Thermodynamics (2005) and A Philosophical Approach to Quantum Field Theory (Cambridge, 2017).

1. Approach to transport phenomena; 2. The diffusion equation; 3. Brownian dynamics; 4. Equilibrium thermodynamics; 5. Balance equations; 6. Forces and fluxes; 7. Measuring transport coefficients; 8. Pressure-driven flow; 9. Heat exchangers; 10. Gas absorption; 11. Driven separations; 12. Complex fluids; 13. Thermodynamics of interfaces; 14. Interfacial balance equations; 15. Interfacial force-flux relations; 16. Polymer processing; 17. Transport around a sphere; 18 Bubble growth and dissolution; 19. Semi-conductor processing; 20. Equilibrium statistical mechanics; 21. Kinetic theory of gases; 22. Kinetic theory of polymeric liquids; 23. Transport in porous media; 24. Transport in biological systems; 25. Microbead rheology; 26. Dynamic light scattering; Appendix A: thermodynamic relations; Appendix B: differential operations in coordinate form.