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.