Analysis of Transport Phenomena: Mathematical Formulation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online
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Graduate-level introduction to mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer (diffusion and convection), fluid dynamics, chemical reactions, and phase transformations.
Syllabus
- Formulation of continuum models and their exact and approximate solution
- Scaling, dimensional analysis, and similarity solutions
- Perturbation methods, matched asymptotic expansions
- Fourier series, eigenfunction expansions
- Fluid dynamics, waves, capillary phenomena, and instabilities
- Forced and natural convection
- Phase transformations and electrochemical transport
Taught by
Martin Bazant and Joey Gu