Transport Phenomena Problems
Welcome to the transport phenomena problems archive. Here you will find a wide variety of exercises with solutions in fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer, most of which are related to materials processing and performance.
View the complete list of problems in alphabetical or reverse chronological order, or by keyword:
- Material class: Metal, Polymer, Ceramic, Glass, Composite, Electronic materials, Biomaterials
- Fluid flow: Viscous flow, Stokes flow, Navier-Stokes, Reynolds number, Non-Newtonian fluid, Drag force, Boundary layers, Bernoulli equation
- Heat/mass transfer: Diffusion, Heat conduction, Radiation, Biot number, Fourier number
- Convective transport: Forced convection, Natural convection, Heat/mass transfer coefficient, Boundary layers, Prandtl/Schmidt number, Nusselt/Sherwood number, Grashof number
- Phase change: Solidification, Evaporation, Sintering, Precipitation
- Methodologies: Dimensional analysis, Macroscopic balance, Integral analysis, Computation, Continuous flow reactors
- Application areas: Biotechnology, Sustainability
Each problem is provided along with the following searchable metadata attributes:
- Author name(s), copyright and license.
- Brief one-sentence description.
- Requisite software, if any.
- Problem and solution editable format, e.g. MSWord, OpenDocument, (PDF)LaTeX
- Problem and solution printable format, e.g. PDF, PostScript
- Difficulty level (approx. undergraduate year or G)
- Approximate solution time
- Keywords
