Subject Code: ML2L004 Name: Transport phenomena and kinetics of metallurgical processes L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4
Pre-requisite(s): None
Transport phenomena: Overview and Fundamentals; Fluid, continuum, stress-tensor vs. pressure-scalar etc; Analogy between transport processes; Heat, mass and momentum balance;  Fourier’s, Fick’s and Newton’slaws;Reynolds Transport Theorem; Scaling laws; laminar & turbulent flow; concept of boundary layer, friction factor; interface heat and mass transfer and dimensionless numbers.

Kinetics: mass action law; kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions with example; Arrhenius Equation; effect of mechanical stressors on reaction kinetics (mechanochemistry applied to materials engineering); electrode kinetics and metal oxidation; nucleation and growth; deoxidation of steel; Further case studies in materials processing.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. D. R. Poirier, G. H. Geiger, Wiley,Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing.
  2. A. Ghosh, S. Ghosh, S. (2014). A textbook of metallurgical kinetics. Phi Learning Pvt. Ltd.
  3. R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot. Wiley International edition,Transport Phenomena.
  4. Julian Szekely, Academic Press, University of Michigan,Fluid flow phenomena in metals processing
  5. “Diffusion in solids” P.G. Shewmon, 2nd Edition, 1991, John Wiley and Sons