Chemical Engineering Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

ABOUT THE COURSE: This is an introductory fluid dynamics and heat transfer course that plays significant role in the chemical engineering as well in the biological, petroleum, and environmental engineering curriculum. It covers some important aspects of fluid flow and heat transfer along their commonality in various chemical engineering processes. The content of this course can be broadly classified into two topics: (1) fluid dynamics, and (2) heat transfer. The objective of this course is to learn the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics and heat transfer as well as to combine and apply the consolidated understanding to solve associated chemical engineering problems.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate students in Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering.PREREQUISITES: Courses in calculus and in mass and energy balancesINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Chemical and Petrochemical Process Industries such as BASF, Tata Chemicals, Reliance Industries, IFFCO, Dr. Reddy’s, Haldia Petrochem, etc.

Week 1: Introduction to fluid dynamics: Properties of fluids and Kinematics Week 2:Basic conservation equations: continuity and momentum Week 3:Exact Solutions Week 4:Order of Magnitude Analysis and Boundary Layer Week 5:Boundary Layer Analysis Week 6:Turbulent Flow, Reynold’s Decomposition Week 7:Fundamentals and mechanism of heat transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation, Differential equations of heat transfer Week 8:Steady-state conduction: Conduction in Cylinders and Spheres, Critical radius of insulation, Heat transfer from extended surface Week 9:Transient conduction: Lumped system analysis, Numerical method for transient conduction analysis Week 10:Forced convective heat transfer: Fundamentals, Boundary layers, Energy and momentum transfer analogiesWeek 11:Natural convection: Mechanism, Empirical correlations for various surfaces Overview of boiling and condensation Week 12:Radiation heat transfer: Introduction, properties, view factor