Course 381N (Unique #: 15200): Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Fall 2011 Instructor: Dr. Thomas M.

Truskett Office: CPE 5.454 Office Hours: Thursday, 1:00 2:00 pm Phone: 512 471 6308 Email: truskett@che.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant: Kyle Hollingshead Office: CPE 5.450 Office hours: TBD Email: kbh@utexas.edu Schedule of Classes: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 11:00 am in CPE 2.220. Final Exam: Wednesday, December 7, 9:00 am 12:00 noon Problem Sets: Expect weekly homework assignments. Problem sets are an important component of the course, and are designed to enhance your understanding of the material as well as to supplement the lectures (i.e., will cover topics not covered in the lectures). You are allowed to consult with your classmates in study groups, as long as you write out your own answers. Use of solution keys from previous years and/or solution manuals is prohibited. Please be clear and systematic in the solutions you turn in. Problem sets will typically not be graded in full. Rather, one or two problems will be chosen at random for grading. Exams & Grades: Plan on two take-home mid-term exams (Oct. 17th & Nov. 21st) and one inclass final (Dec. 7th), according to the registrars schedule. Grades will be computed based on the following weighting: Problem Sets: 25% 1st Midterm: 25% 2nd Midterm: 25% Final exam: 25% Handouts & Course Website: If you miss class, it is your responsibility to copy notes from a classmate who was able to attend. We plan on using the Blackboard website to post class handouts. Missed Classes and Makeup Dates: In addition to official holidays, I will occasionally miss class because of travel to conferences and seminars. I apologize for this inconvenience. Depending on progress in covering the planned topics, we may need to schedule a make-up lecture. I appreciate your cooperation in this regard. Disability Services: Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, 471-6259, http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/ Academic Dishonesty & Honor Code: Instances of academic dishonesty will be handled in accord with UT Austin policy. A description of the honor code can be found at the following link: http://registrar.utexas.edu/catalogs/gi09-10/ch01/index.html Religious holidays: By UT Austin policy, you must notify me of your pending absence at least 14 days prior to the date of observance of a religious holy day. If you must miss a class, an examination, a work assignment, or a project in order to observe a religious holy day, you will be given an opportunity to complete the missed work within a reasonable time after the absence.

Course 381N: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Fall 2011 Objectives: This is a graduate level, advanced transport phenomena course. Despite the somewhat misleading title, the course will address aspects of three fundamental transport processes: heat, mass and momentum transfer. The emphasis will be on developing and analyzing appropriate models for these processes. The objectives of this course: Introduce the basic idea of continuum mechanics and continuum models. Learn to develop transport models. Learn to use models to build a physical understanding of systems. Develop applied math skills. Learn the molecular and thermodynamic basis of transport phenomena.

Prerequisites: This is a graduate course and hence you need to either have graduate standing or prior approval from the instructor. This course is meant to be an advanced level course, and consequently it is expected that you have had an undergraduate level course at the level of Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot (the text used at a sophomore level in UT). Problem Set 1 has some questions designed to refresh your memory. Well use these topics later in the course, and so it is preferable that you are already comfortable with the material. In addition, it is expected that you have had undergraduate math courses covering vector analysis and the solutions of ordinary differential equations. Handout 1 provides an outline of some solution techniques for first and second orders ODEs. The lectures and problem sets will utilize results summarized therein. If you feel that your mathematical background might be a bit lacking, it might be beneficial to register concurrently for ChE 381P, although this is not a strict prerequisite for taking this course. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions/concerns regarding the prerequisites (the earlier, the better). Texts: This course will not strictly follow any specific text. Many lectures were derived from lectures material in the following books: 1. Text: Analysis of Transport Phenomena: W. M. Deen, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. 2. Possible Supplement: Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes: L. G. Leal, Butterworths (1992). Both books are similar in their coverage of topics, but differ in their style of presentation. Deens book is more systematic, and focuses on introducing the mathematical principles and then applying it to problems. Leals book is more problem oriented, where the techniques are introduced as they are needed. I feel that Deens book is more pedagogical and might be appreciated by the students who tend to like more details. On the other hand, Leals book is more mature and will be appreciated by someone who has a stronger background. To enforce some degree of uniformity in the class (and also because Leals book has since gone out of print), I recommend buying Deens book for a text. Where possible, I will try to indicate the sections corresponding to the lectures in both the Deens and Leals book.

In addition to these books, the lectures will draw upon several other books. It is not necessary to buy these books, and as the need arises, I might furnish photocopies of the relevant sections. 1. An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics: G. K. Batchelor. This is an excellent introduction (with an applied math perspective) by arguably one of the most notable fluid mechanics personalities in the recent times. 2. Fluid Mechanics: L. D. Landau and Lifshitz. 3. Vectors, Tensors and the Basic Equations of Fluid Mechanics: R. Aris. This is one of the best introductions to the fundamental physical ideas behind vectors, tensors, metric spaces etc. It is almost essential to master this if you are planning on pursuing research in electrodynamics, relativity, gravitational physics etc. Aris was a chemical engineer, and so the models and ideas used in this text are mostly based on those encountered in chemical engineering. 4. Microhydrodynamics: S. Kim and S. Karilla: This is the current authority on lowReynolds number hydrodynamics. If you are planning to pursue suspension flow modeling etc., then this might be a worthwhile investment. (Dont know if it is still in print). 5. Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics: Happel and Brenner: This was the former authority on low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics. 6. The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids: R. G. Larson: An extensive survey of topics of current interest not all of which pertains to transport phenomena. 7. Physicochemical Hydrodynamics: R. L. Probstein: A nice introduction to mass transfer problems with emphasis on surface phenomena. The following books are not directly pertinent to the course content. However, they provide an introduction from a different perspective to some topics covered in this course. 1. Perturbation Methods: E. J. Hinch. (A student of G. K. Batchelor). 2. Scaling, Self-Similarity, and Intermediate Asymptotics: G. I. Barenblatt.