Course unit
Transport Phenomena
Last updated: 22/02/2024
Edit
Course Director(s):
GROSSEAU Philippe
General Description:
Momentum, energy and mass balances. Heat transfers by conduction (Fourier’s Law), by convection (natural and forced convection, correlations) and by radiation (Stefan’s Law). Mass Transfer by diffusion (Fick’s Law) and convection (correlations), Film theory.
Key words:
Heat transfer
Mass transfer
Number of teaching hours
12
Fields of study
Teaching language
French
English
Intended learning outcomes
| On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of: |
Classification level |
Priority |
| Understanding the different processes of heat and materials transfer |
2. Understand |
Essential |
| Quantifying phenomena of heat and materials transfer in all situations (stationary state, geometry, involved processes …) |
3. Apply |
Essential |
| Assessing the efficiency of a heat or materials transfer device |
6. Assess |
Important |
Learning assessment methods
|
Percentage ratio of individual assessment
|
Percentage ratio of group assessment
|
|
Written exam:
|
100
|
%
|
Project submission:
|
0
|
%
|
|
Individual oral exam:
|
0
|
%
|
Group presentation:
|
0
|
%
|
|
Individual presentation:
|
0
|
%
|
Group practical exercise:
|
0
|
%
|
|
Individual practical exercise:
|
0
|
%
|
Group report:
|
0
|
%
|
|
Individual report:
|
0
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
Other(s): 0 %
|
Programme and content
| Type of teaching activity |
Content, sequencing and organisation |
| Course |
Momentum, energy and mass balances. Heat transfers by conduction (Fourier’s Law), by convection (natural and forced convection, correlations) and by radiation (Stefan’s Law). Mass Transfer by diffusion (Fick’s Law) and convection (correlations), Film theory -Transfers of materials by diffusion (Fick’s Law) and convection (correlations), Film theory. Analogies between types of transfer |
| Supervised studies |
Heat transfer by conduction in plane and cylindrical geometry at steady state, with or without source Heat transfer by conduction in plane and spherical geometry at steady state Dimensional analysis of heat transfer Radiation transfer Dimensioning a heat exchanger Mass transfer by diffusion with a reaction in plane and spherical geometry Mass transfer by convection in plane and spherical geometry Simultaneous heat and mass transfer |