1. Introduction and dimensional analysis; 2. Dimensionless groups and correlations; 3. Diffusion and dispersion; 4. Unidirectional transport: Cartesian co-ordinates; 5. Unidirectional transport: curvilinear co-ordinates; 6. Pressure-driven flow; 7. Mass and energy conservation; 8.. Diffusion equation; 9 Forced convection; 10. Natural convection.
This student-friendly textbook is an introduction to the fundamentals and applications of transport phenomena in a single volume.
V. Kumaran is professor in the department of chemical engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the World Academy of Science. His research includes flow in biological systems such as tubes with flexible walls, kinetic theories for rapid granular flows, statistical mechanics, rheology in complex fluids and high Mach number gas dynamics.
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