ChEn533 — 2020 Course Notes

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General Resources

• National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films. These are awesome videos made in the 1960s for teaching fluid mechanics. We watched part of the one on “Turbulence” in class.
• Errata for Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot. Special Thanks to Bill Pitt for providing this errata.

Course Concepts

• This document is a detailed list of the concepts covered in the course.

Unit 1

• Lecture 1 - Momentum and Viscosity

• Lecture 2 - Energy and Conductivity

• Lecture 3 - Transport Properties

• Lecture 4 - Mass and Diffusivity
  • Derivation of Darken’s Equation relating self-diffusion and mutual diffusion

• Lecture 5 - 1D Shell Momentum Balances I

• Lecture 6 - 1D Shell Momentum Balances II
  • Notes on Falling Cylinder Viscometer which is problem 2C4 in BSL.

• Lecture 7 - 1D Shell Energy Balances
  • Example: conduction in a solid composite.

• Lecture 8 - Vectors and Tensors I

• Lecture 9 - Vectors and Tensors II

• Lecture 10 - Vectors and Tensors III

• Lecture 11 - Momentum Equation I

• Lecture 12 - Momentum Equation II

• Lecture 13 - Momentum Equation III

• Lecture 14 - Momentum Equation IV and Energy Equation I

• Lecture 15 - Energy Equation II

• Lecture 16 - Energy Equation III

• Lecture 17 - Energy Equation IV

• Lecture 18 - Shell Mass Balances I

• Lecture 19 - Shell Mass Balances II
  • This was the lecture that I did from home due to possible illness. Unfortunately, I forgot to record it. Here are the lecture notes that I made while we were recording the lecture.
• Lecture 20 - Species Mass Equation I

• Lecture 21 - Species Mass Equation II

• Lecture 22 - Multicomponent Transport Equations and Boussinesq Approx I
  • There was a technical problem that occured during this lecture that led to the loss of some footage in the middle of the lecture. Here are my notes from this lecture to help you get those missed parts.

• Lecture 23 - Multicomponent Transport Equations and Boussinesq Approx II

Unit 2

• Lecture 27 - Similarity Method I

• Lecture 28 - Similarity Method II

• Lecture 29 - Separation of Variables I

• Lecture 30 - Separation of Variables II

• Lecture 31 - Sturm Liouville Theory I
  • There was a problem with the recording of this lecture. Here are the written lecture notes instead.
• Lecture 32 - Sturm Liouville Theory II

• Lecture 33 - Sturm Liouville Theory III

• Lecture 34 - Perturbation Methods I
  • Video Notes

• Lecture 35 - Perturbation Methods II

• Lecture 36 - Perturbation Methods III

• Lecture 37 - Perturbation Methods IV

• Lecture 38 - Boundary Layer Theory I
  • Video Notes

• Lecture 39 - Boundary Layer Theory II
  • Video Notes

• Lecture 40 - Boundary Layer Theory III
  • Video Notes