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This document provides information about the CL203: Introduction to Transport Phenomena course for the Autumn semester 2023. The course will be taught by Guruswamy Kumaraswamy and cover fundamental transport processes of mass, momentum and energy through partial differential equations. Students will learn various methods to solve these equations and apply dimensional analysis. The primary textbook will be Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot. Assessments will include problem sets, quizzes, a group project, a midterm exam and a final exam.

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This document provides information about the CL203: Introduction to Transport Phenomena course for the Autumn semester 2023. The course will be taught by Guruswamy Kumaraswamy and cover fundamental transport processes of mass, momentum and energy through partial differential equations. Students will learn various methods to solve these equations and apply dimensional analysis. The primary textbook will be Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot. Assessments will include problem sets, quizzes, a group project, a midterm exam and a final exam.

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CL203: Introduction to Transport Phenomena

Autumn semester 2023, S1 Instructor: Guruswamy Kumaraswamy


TAs: Kadari Vinod Kumar [email protected], Aihika Mandal [email protected] and Kartik
Kumar Goyal [email protected]

Course outline and textbook: This is an introductory course on the transport of mass, momentum and
energy in processes. This course is foundational and forms the basis for several chemical engineering
courses that you will take in the next couple of years, including, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass
transfer. In this course, we will start from familiar territory: the laws of conservation of mass,
momentum and energy and apply these to fluids and rigid bodies. We will adopt a continuum
description of matter and ignore molecular details (for the most part). The equations of conservation
of mass, momentum and energy will be developed as partial differential equations. We will learn
methods to solve these – exactly in some rare cases and approximately in most engineering situations
and use these to develop a detailed description of flows in a variety of processes. The primary textbook
for this course will be the classic textbook by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot (BSL). I strongly recommend
that you have access to a copy of this book.

Bird, R. B.; Stewart, W. E.; Lightfoot, E. N. Transport Phenomena. 2nd ed., 2002, John Wiley (NY).

What you should learn through this course

- Given a process, identify the governing transport processes


- Use Einstein notation to solve problems relating to vectors and tensors
- Set up partial differential equations to model continuum transport, identify boundary
conditions.
- Be able to invoke a variety of methods to solve these differential equations.
- Use dimensional analysis to identify suitable non-dimensional groupings and use these for
simplification of transport balance equations

Course coordination and communication will be through moodle, accessible through your LDAP IDs.

This course runs in slot 1, viz we meet on M (0830-0930), Tu (0930-1030) and Th (1030-1130).

You will be assigned 6 problem sets through the course. I will discuss some of the problems during the
regular class. You are encouraged to collaborate to solve these problem sets. There will be tutorial
sessions where we solve problems – including some not specifically assigned in the problem sets.

Evaluations:

We will have 3 quizzes through the semester (tentatively on 23/Aug; 07/Sep and 25/Oct). I will
consider the best 2 of these quizzes and these will count for 20% of the grade (10% each). Quizzes will
be based primarily on the tutorial sheets.

Course project: There will be a group project (due on the last day of instruction, 09-Nov), that will
count for 15%. I expect you to start working on this after the midsemester examination and will
provide you details at that time.

You will also have midsem (25%) and endsem (40%) exams.

Quizzes/exams will typically be open book and/or notes (details will be provided later).

Total = Quiz (20%) + Project (15%) + Midsem (25%) + Endsem (40%) = 100%

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