INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPARTMENT:

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

1. Subject Code: MT-201

Course Title: Transport Phenomena

2. Contact Hours:

L: 3;

3. Examination Duration (Hrs):

Theory:

4. Relative Weightage: CWS:

5. Credits:

0 4

7. Pre-requisite: Nil

2 5

PRS:

T: 1;
0 3
0 0

6 Semester:

P: 0
Practical:

MTE:

2 5

0 0
ETE:

5 0

PRE:

0 0

Autumn

8. Subject Area:

DCC

9. Objective: To familiarize the students with heat, mass and momentum transfer in various
metallurgical processes.
10. Details of the Course:
Sl.
No.
1
2

Contents
Introduction of Metallurgical Systems: Concept of unit operations in
chemical metallurgy, engineering fundamentals of unit processes.
Momentum Transfer: Differential and overall balances and their
applications in flow through pipes, inclined planes, packed beds and
flow measuring devices such as orifice meter, Venturi meter, flow
nozzles, pitot tube, rotameter, concept and working principle of
supersonic nozzles; momentum transfer in turbulent flow situation.
Heat Transfer: Conduction- Steady state heat conduction problems in
slabs, hollow cylinders, spheres, composite walls, composite pipes etc,
unsteady heat transfer in metallic specimens (lumped system)
Convection- free and forced convection, heat transfer coefficient,
dimensional analysis problems. Radiation- emissivity, absoptivity,
Plancks distribution law, Weins displacement law, Stefan-Boltzmann
law, radiative heat transfer between two black bodies and concept of
view factor.
Mass Transfer: Diffusive mass transfer, diffusivity, Ficks law,
representation of mass fluxes, differential and overall mass balance
equations and their applications, diffusion in solids and stationary
media. Differential equation of convective mass transfer, concept of
mass transfer coefficient and its determination by the application of
dimensional analysis; interface mass transfer theories.
Total

Contact
Hours
6
12

12

12

42

11. Suggested Books:

Sl. No.

1
2
3
4

Authors/Name of Books/ Publisher

Bird, R.B., Stewart, E.S., Lightfoot, E.N., Transport Phenomena,
John Wiley.
Geiger, G.H., Poirier, D.R., Transport Phenomena in Metallurgy,
Addison-Wesley.
Kou, S., Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing, John Wiley.
Backhurst, J.R., Harker, J. H., Richardson, J.F., Coulson J.M.,
Chemical Engineering Volume 1: Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer and Mass
Transfer, 6th Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann.
Mohanty, A.K., Rate Processes in Metallurgy, Prentice-Hall.

Year of
Publications/
Reprint
2002
1973
1996
1999

2000