MATLS 3E04 - Mass Transfer

4 unit(s)

Phenomenological and mechanistic approaches to steady and non-steady state diffusion, boundary conditions, mechanisms of diffusion, Arrhenius behaviour, gas-solid reactions, precipitate growth and dissolution, plate and spherical geometries, plane front solidification, diffusion in concentrated alloys, the Kirkendall effect, the interdiffusion coefficient, diffusion couples with intermediate phases, mass transport with convection, transient diffusion in fluids, the mass transfer coefficient.
Two lectures (three hours), two tutorials (one hour); first term.
Prerequisite(s): MATLS 1M03 and both MATH 2A03 and 2C03, or both MATH 2Z03 and 2ZZ3 or registration in Level IV or above in Civil Engineering