Transport Processes

• Describe the molecular processes behind viscosity, thermal conduction and diffusion.
• Obtain analytical solutions for flow problems with simple boundary and initial data.
• Formulate and analyze models for combined flow and heat transport
• Formulate and analyze models for combined flow and diffusion
• Formulate and analyze models for combined flow and chemical reaction
• Make order of magnitude estimates for key quantities such as fluxes, reaction rates and equilibration times.
• Use Computational Fluid Dynamics for the simulation of flow with combined heat and mass transport (COMSOL)
• Evaluate the accuracy of approximations obtained by Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Formulate models for transport with a small or large parameter (boundary layers)

Mechanisms for the transport of momentum (flow), nergy and mass in chemical and biological systems. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics as basis for transport processes. Applications in the design of equipment and analytical instrumentation in the chemical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry, and in modeling and simulation of processes in a sustainability context.

28160/01025/01034/01035/01037, Formulation of models resulting in ordinary or partial differential equations.
Advanced engineering mathematics, including linear partial differential equations.

Lectures with exercises, two projects. The two projects are usually scheduled in October (report due at end of month) and in last weeks of the 13-week period (report due first day of examination period, usually). Normal teaching activities continue concurrently with the projects.