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Instructor:

Prof. Roseanna Zia 344 Olin Hall zia@cbe.cornell.edu Vikram Thapar thapar.09@gmail.com 379 Olin Hall M-W-F 11:15AM - 12:05PM 255 Olin Hall

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Lecture: Text:

Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer (Welty / Wicks / Wilson / Rorrer). Copies also on reserve at Uris Library. Supplementary reading on reserve at Uris Library: (1) Engineering Fluid Mechanics (Crowe / Elger / Williams / Roberson) and (2) Transport Phenomena (Bird, Stewart, & Lightfoot) Recitation: 3 optional recitation sections; attend as many as you like ( 1): 1. Mon 2:30 - 3:20PM, Franklin Lee 2. Wed 2:30 - 3:20PM, Vikram Thapar 3. Fri 9:05 - 9:55AM, Eric Burkholder Locations as noted in course schedules. Office Hours: Locations to be posted on Blackboard during 1st week of classes 1. Tue 4:30 - 5:30PM, Eric Burkholder (267 Olin Hall) 2. Weds 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Andrew Broenen & Franklin Lee (246 Olin Hall) 3. Thurs 7:00 8:00 Vikram Thapar and 8:00 - 10:00PM, Sijun Yang & Linh Nguyen (203 Thurston Hall) Problem sets: Posted on Blackboard on Fridays. Due: Fridays by 5:00PM to the 4 boxes outside Vikrams office (379 Olin) 4 problems per set. Staple each problem separately with name, set #, page # on each page. Problem #1 to have assignment sheet on top, name at top +/2 points per set. Returned: Sets will be returned in-class on Wednesdays, except for exam weeks, when they will returned sooner. Exams: Short closed-book/notes portion + longer open-book/notes portion. #1 Tues March 5, 7:00 - 9:00PM #2 Tues April 2, 7:00 - 9:00PM #3 Wed May 8, 7:00 - 9:30PM Grade: Problem sets 25%; Exams 25% each. Collaboration on problem sets is encouraged, but all solutions must be your own. Cornell honor code must be observed.

Syllabus, ChemE 3230 Spring 2013 Jan. 24, 2013 1. Introduction to fluid mechanics; Fluid Properties [Welty Ch. 1.1, 1.4/Crowe Ch.1 & 2] 2. Fluid statics; Submerged surfaces & bodies [Welty Ch. 2/ Crowe Ch. 3] 3. Viscosity & viscoelasticity [Welty Ch. 7] 4. Math fundamentals [Boyce & DiPrima, Ch. 2, 3] 5. Fluid Motion: Unidirectional flows [Welty Ch. 8] - The stress tensor; Newtonian fluids - Pressure driven unidirectional flows (Poiseuille flow) - Simple shear flows (Couette flow) - Unidirectional flows with fluid/fluid interface - Non-Newtonian unidirectional flows Exam # 1, Mar. 5 8. Control-volume Analysis (Macroscopic balances) [Welty Ch. 4, 5, & 6 / Crowe Ch. 5, 6, & 7] - Conservation of mass (Continuity equation) - Conservation of momentum - Conservation of mechanical energy & Bernoullis equation 9. Differential-volume Analysis (Microscopic balances) [Welty Ch. 9, 3, 10, 7.4] - Conservation of mass, differential form - Conservation of momentum, differential form (The Navier-Stokes equations) - Applications 10. Regimes of the Navier-Stokes equations 11. Review for exam Exam # 2, Apr. 2 13. Dimensional analysis & Dimensional Similarity [Welty Ch. 11.1, 11.2] 14. Surface tension [Leal, Ch. 4-G(1); Plesset & Prosperetti (1977)] 15. Introduction to boundary layers - Laminar boundary layer theory (Prandtl, Blasius) [Welty 12.3-12.5/ Crowe 9.1 & 9.3] - Startup flow over a flat plate - Steady flow over a flat plate - Wedge (Falker-scan) flows - Flow over a blunt body; BL separation 16. Turbulence & instability [Welty 12.8 / Crowe 9.5] 17. Lubrication flows [Wm.Deen (NOT Denn) Ch. 6.6] 18. Low Reynolds Number Flows [B.S.L. Ch. 2.6] - Viscous scaling of the Navier-Stokes Equations - Stokes Equations & properties of Stokes flow - Rotating sphere, Translating sphere in Stokes Flow - Stokes settling velocity - Brownian motion and diffusion; the Stokes-Einstein Relation; Avagadros Number 19. Flow through porous media & Darcys Law; Sedimentation Exam # 3, May 8 (week 16)

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