This textbook provides a thorough presentation of the phenomena related to the transport of mass, momentum and energy. It lays all the basic physical principles, then for the more advanced readers, it offers an in-depth treatment with advanced mathematical derivations and ends with some useful applications of the models and equations in specific settings.

The important idea behind the book is to unify all types of transport phenomena, describing them within a common framework in terms of cause and effect, respectively represented by the driving force and the flux of the transported quantity. The approach and presentation are original in that the book starts with a general description of transport processes, providing the macroscopic balance relations of fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer, before diving into the mathematical realm of continuum mechanics to derive the microscopic governing equations at the microscopic level.

The book is a modular teaching tool and can be used either for an introductory or for an advanced graduate course. The last 6 chapters will be of interest to more advanced researchers who might be interested in particular applications in physics, mechanical engineering or biomedical engineering. All chapters are complemented with exercises that are essential to complete the learning process.

Modern and comprehensive textbook on transport phenomena with an innovative didactic approach Presents physical phenomena first, shows macroscopic balance relations and then derives the microscopic governing equations Offers some advanced sections, useful to tackle specialized questions in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering and biomedical engineering Provides exercises for each chapter and solutions at the end of the book Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Roberto Mauri is a professor of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena at the University of Pisa, Italy. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Politecnico di Milano and his Ph.D. from Technion, Haifa, Israel, in 1984. He has been a visiting professor and teacher at MIT (Cambridge, USA), City College of CUNY and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA). Professor Mauri has more than 100 publications to his name. He received the Landau prize in Tel Aviv in 1984. In 2012, he published his book "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Multiphase Flows" with Springer.

Inhalt
Preface.- Thermodynamics and Evolution.- Statics of Fluids.- General Features of Fluid Mechanics.- Macroscopic Balances.- Laminar Flow Fields.- The Governing Equations of a Simple Fluid.- Unidirectional Flows.- Laminar Boundary Layer.- Heat Conduction.- Conduction with Heat Sources.- Macroscopic Energy Balance.- Time Dependent Heat Conduction.- Convective Heat Transport.- Constitutive Equations for Transport of Chemical Species.- Stationary Material Transport.- Non Stationary Material Transport.- Convective Material Transport.- Transport Phenomena in Turbulent Flow.- Free Convection.- Radiant Heat Transfer.- Anti diffusion.- Stationary Diffusion.- Appendices A F.- Solutions of Problems - Background Reading.- Subject Index.