Subject Code: ML6L020 Name: Transport Phenomena L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Heat, mass and momentum balance, laminar, turbulent flow, concept of boundary layer, friction factor, heat and mass transfer coefficients and dimensionless correlations;  Process
modeling: governing equations, boundary conditions, and some case studies of some
important metallurgical system: packed and fluidized bed, moving boundary problems with melting, solidifications and reactions, solid-gas reactions. Modeling of electrochemical processes. Numerical methods applied in transport modeling: control volume method for solving partial differential equations. Numerical solutions of some metallurgical processes: extraction processes, iron making, steel making gas stirred ladle, filling ladle, fusion welding, cored wire injection, soaking pits, continuous casting etc.

Texts / Reference Books:
  1. R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot. Wiley International edition,Transport Phenomena.
  2. D. R. Poirier, G. H. Geiger, Wiley, Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing.
  3. Julian Szekely, Academic Press, University of Michigan,Fluid flow phenomena in metals processing.