DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

CHE 715: Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena

COURSE SYLLABUS, Spring 2017

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Instructor: Prof. Jason Haugh

jason_haugh@ncsu.edu
Suite 3100, Partners 2 Building

Teaching Assistants: Jennifer Clark John Schneible

jaclark5@ncsu.edu jdschnei@ncsu.edu

Class meets: Tue/Thur 10:15-11:30 am, Room 2232, EB3

Course Description: 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.

Required Textbook:
Deen, William M. Analysis of Transport Phenomena, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0199740284

Grading: Problem Sets (8): 16%

Midterm Exams (4): 84%

All problem sets are to be completed individually; i.e., without the use of other students solutions and
without consulting solutions that may be available via other sources. Failure to adhere to this policy
will result in disciplinary action via the NCSU academic integrity policy (see below). Problem sets are
to be submitted electronically by 5 pm local time on the due date (as a single PDF, submitted via
moodle).

All midterm exams will be open book, open notes, and a 2-hour time limit will be strictly enforced.
Electronic devices with an active data connection are not allowed to be used during the exams.

Course grades will be determined based on overall average, with letter grade cut-offs set based on
gaps in the distribution. No problem set or exam grades will be dropped or weighted disproportionally.
Typically, the top half of the class earns B+ or better.

Academic Integrity:
Campus-wide definitions and policies related to academic integrity are outlined in the NCSU Code of
Student Conduct:
http://policies.ncsu.edu/policy/pol-11-35-01

Solutions to problem set and exam problems will be distributed, on the condition that all students sign
the Restriction on Sharing Course Content form. The form should be submitted no later than the due
date of the first problem set (you may submit it together with your problem set).

NCSU Policy on Working with Students with Disabilities:

http://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-02-20-01

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Lecture DATE TOPICS COVERED Deen Chapters

1 Tue Jan 10 Conservation and flux equations Appendix, 1 & 2
2 Thur Jan 12 Simple transport problems, examples 1&2
3 Tue Jan 17 (continued) 1&2
4 Thur Jan 19 Scaling and order-of-magnitude analysis 3
Fri Jan 20 PS 1 due
Jan 24 & 26 No class (JH out of town)
5 Tue Jan 31 (continued) 3
6 Thur Feb 2 (continued) 3
Fri Feb 3 PS 2 due
7 Tue Feb 7 Solution methods involving scaling 4
8 Thur Feb 9 (continued) 4
Fri Feb 10 MIDTERM EXAM 1 1-3 (Lectures 1-6)
9 Tue Feb 14 (continued) 4
10 Thur Feb 16 Conduction/diffusion problems: FFTs 5.1-5.8
Fri Feb 17 PS 3 due
11 Tue Feb 21 (continued) 5.1-5.8
12 Thur Feb 23 (continued) 5.1-5.8
Fri Feb 24 PS 4 due
13 Tue Feb 28 Fluid mechanics intro, stress and shear 6
14 Thur Mar 2 Unidirectional flows, lubrication theory 7.1-7.6
Fri Mar 3 MIDTERM EXAM 2 4-5 (Lecs. 7-12)
Mar 7 & 9 No classes (spring break)
15 Tue Mar 14 (continued) 7.1-7.6
16 Thur Mar 16 (continued) 7.1-7.6
Fri Mar 17 PS 5 due
17 Tue Mar 21 Creeping flow, stream functions 8
Thur Mar 23 No class (JH out of town)
Fri Mar 24 PS 6 due
18 Tue Mar 28 (continued) 8
19 Thur Mar 30 High Re flows, boundary layer analysis 9
Fri Mar 31 MIDTERM EXAM 3 6-8 (Lecs. 13-18)
20 Tue Apr 4 (continued) 9
21 Tue Apr 6 Convective heat/mass: confined flows 10.1-10.5
22 Tue Apr 11 (continued) 10.1-10.5
23 Thur Apr 13 Taylor dispersion 10.7
Fri Apr 14 PS 7 due
24 Tue Apr 18 Convective heat/mass: unconfined flows 11.1-11.4
25 Thur Apr 20 (continued) 11.1-11.4
Fri Apr 21 PS 8 due
26 Tue Apr 25 Special topic (to be announced)
Thur Apr 27 No class (in lieu of Exam 4)
Fri Apr 28 MIDTERM EXAM 4 9-11 (Lecs. 19-26)