Transport Phenomena Fundamentals
The models in this collection are designed as teaching tools for undergraduate and graduate transport processes courses. Many of them are based on examples and problems from the textbook "Transport Phenomena Fundamentals" by J.L. Plawsky. They are inherently simple to illustrate fundamental concepts, but easily adaptable and extendable to be used as term project material or for more rigorous graduate courses.
Dr. Joel Plawsky
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Chemical Engineering
Professor Plawsky spent two years as a Senior Engineer with Corning, Inc. before moving to Rensselaer in 1988 to teach in the area of transport phenomena. Previously, he had recieved his PhD at the Massachusett´s Institute of Technology.
His major research interests are in thin films, optical engineering and infrastructure engineering. He has
developed and taught a number of subjects at Rensselaer, mostly within chemical engineering and transport phenomena.
| Transport Properties of Materials | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material Properties | Download | Description |
| 1-D Transport Boundary Conditions and Balance Equation | ||
| Wall Conduction | Download | Description |
| Two Region Diffusion | Download | Description |
| Generation Terms | ||
| Power Law | Download | Description |
| Bingham Model | Download | Description |
| Variable Generation, Coupled Transport | ||
| Diffusion with Chemical Reaction | Download | Description |
| Accumulation: Lumped Capacitance | ||
| Lumped Parameter Model | Download | Description |
| Accumulation: Internal Gradients | ||
| Watermain | Download | Description |
| Cake | Download | Description |
| Waves | ||
| Wave | Download | Description |
| Extended Surfaces | ||
| Pore Diffusion | Download | Description |
| Multidimensional Transport | ||
| Aerocapture | Download | Description |
| CVB Radiation | Download | Description |
| Drug diffusion through Skin | Download | Description |
| Fields, Potential Functions, and Streamlines, etc. | ||
| Doublet | Download | Description |
| Drain | Download | Description |
| Potential Flow | Download | Description |
| Navier-Stokes Equations, Mechanical Energy Equation | ||
| Sphere | Download | Description |
| Curveball | Download | Description |
| Fluid Jet | Download | Description |
| Convective Transport Equations | ||
| Biochip | Download | Description |
| Lab-on-a-chip Mixing | Download | Description |
| Rayleigh | Download | Description |
| Reacting Wall | Download | Description |
| Heated Wall | Download | Description |
| Boundary Layers - Flat Plate (Friction Factors, Heat and Mass Transfer Coefficients) | ||
| BL Velocity | Download | Description |
| BL Temperature | Download | Description |
| BL Concentration | Download | Description |
| BL non-Newtonian | Download | Description |
| Flow over Objects, Drag | ||
| Whale fin | Download | Description |
| Capsule | Download | |
| Fastball/WhiffleBall | Download | Description |
| NACA Airfoil | Download | Description |
| Nusselt | Download | Description |
| Flow in Tubes | ||
| Graetz | Download | Description |
| Dispersion | Download | Description |
| Power Law | Download | Description |
| Turbulence | ||
| NACA Airfoil | Download | Description |
| Plate | Download | Description |
| Truck | Download | Description |
| Cylinder | Download | Description |
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