Readings Fluid Flow, Heat & Mass Transfer

Course subject(s) Readings

The books used in this course are listed on this page. The primary text is Fysische Transportverschijnselen [Physical Transport Phenomena], by van den Akker and Mudde, published by a local publisher VSSD. It is currently available only in Dutch, but an English translation of this book is currently being written. All students in ta3220 are expected to have a copy because they used it in the earlier course they took in transport phenomena. This book is heavily referenced during the course, with the abbreviation FT, or FTI. The other major source book is the first (1960) edition of Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot (abbreviated BSL in the course notes). In my opinion the treatment of shell balances in the first edition of BSL is unsurpassed, and significantly better than that in the second edition of the same text. Probably tens of thousands of students have used this text around the world, so it should not be hard for students to find a used copy.

The description of orthogonal conduction is from F.M. White, Heat Conduction; this book is currently available on Amazon.com (and, I presume, other sources) in 1983 and 1988 editions. We also use one unsteady-heat-conduction chart from Carslaw and Jaegar’s classic book Conduction of Heat in Solids.

The following specific passages and charts are taken from the texts listed below:

Shell balance solutions for rectilinear flow of Newtonian fluids and Bingham plastics. The best treatment I have seen is in the first edition of BSL. In the lectures we also go over several derivations in FT. Similar derivations can be found in many transport-phenomena textbooks.

Friction factor charts for Newtonian fluids in flow through tubes, around spheres, and through packed beds. These are in both BSL and FT, and many other texts and engineering handbooks. As noted in the lecture, be careful about which definition of friction factor is used in a given text.

Shell balance solutions for simple heat-transfer problems. Same comments as for shell balances above.

Charts for unsteady 1D conduction in various geometries. These are available in many transport-phenomena and heat-transfer texts, sometimes in different formats. For instance, FT gives average and center temperature for the given shape, while BSL gives the temperature distribution but not the average temperature. The chart for radial conduction outwards from a cylindrical surface is less common, but is in Carslaw and Jaegar.

Diagrams for various shapes that can be treated with orthogonal conduction. White’s Heat Transfer textbook is the only text I know of with these charts, but once you understand the principle you can probably get along without the charts.

Charts for heat-transfer coefficients (Nusselt number) in tubes. Available in a great many texts, and also for cases not shown here: flow past plates, flow around tubes and spheres, flow through packed beds, etc. We treat only the case of flow in tubes, but similar principles and methods apply to other cases.