Academic Catalog

ME546 DIFFUSION PROBLEMS IN THERMAL-FLUID SCIENCES

Course Code: 5690546
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ZAFER DURSUNKAYA
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Conservation laws. Viscosity as momentum diffusivity, thermal diffusivity, time scales and dimensionless quantities. Diffusion of momentum and heat in infinite and finite media. Problems in cylindrical geometry. Vorticity and diffusion of vorticity. Diffusion in boundary layers. Combined heat and mass diffusion, Soret and Dufour effects.