DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
CHE 715: Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena
COURSE SYLLABUS, Spring 2016
Instructor:
Prof. Jason Haugh
jason_haugh@ncsu.edu
Teaching Assistants:
Jennifer Clark
jaclark5@ncsu.edu
Anurodh Tripathi
atripat2@ncsu.edu
Course Description: Advanced course in heat and mass transfer and fluid mechanics,
including conservation and constitutive equations, scaling and solution methods for handling
boundary value problems, and coupling of chemical reaction/adsorption with diffusion and fluid
flow.
Required Textbook:
Deen, William M. Analysis of Transport Phenomena, Second Edition. Oxford University Press,
2011. ISBN: 978-0199740284
Grading Basis:
Problem Sets (8):
Midterm Exams (4):
16%
84%
All problem sets are to be completed individually; i.e., without the use of other students’
solutions and without consulting solutions that may be available via other sources. Failure to
adhere to this policy will result in disciplinary action via the NCSU academic integrity policy (see
below). The tentative due dates are listed on the Course Schedule (p. 3).
All midterm exams will be open book, open notes, and a 2-hour time limit will be strictly
enforced. Electronic devices with an active data connection may not be used during the exams.
The exam dates are listed on the Course Schedule (p.3).
Course grades will be determined based on overall average, with letter grade cut-offs set based
on gaps in the distribution. No problem set or exam grades will be dropped or weighted
disproportionally. Typically, the top half of the class earns B+ or better.
Other details are given under Specific Instructions and Guidelines for EOL Students (p.2).
Academic Integrity:
Campus-wide definitions and policies related to academic integrity are outlined in the NCSU
Code of Student Conduct:
http://policies.ncsu.edu/policy/pol-11-35-01
Solutions to problem sets and exams will be distributed, on the condition that all students sign
the Restriction on Sharing Course Content form. The form should be submitted no later than
the due date of the first problem set (you may be submit it together with your problem set).
NCSU Policy on Working with Students with Disabilities:
http://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-02-20-01
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Specific Instructions and Guidelines for Engineering Online (EOL) Students
1. Communication: I will be corresponding with you mostly if not exclusively by email.
Messages addressed to the online section will be sent through the following mailing list:
CHE715-601@wolfware.ncsu.edu
Only the instructor, the TAs, and EOL staff can send messages to the list.
IMPORTANT: At least to my knowledge, the mailing lists established through the Wolfware
system use your NCSU email address. I understand that for many of you, this is not your
preferred address; if so you will want to set up email forwarding, as instructed here:
http://oit.ncsu.edu/email/email-forwarding
2. Viewing Lectures and Other Materials: This semester’s lectures will be taped as they are
delivered to the concurrent ‘live’ section of the class (as opposed to being ‘pretaped’ from a
previous semester). You will have access to the lectures as soon as they are posted on the
website by EOL. Lecture notes will typically have two forms: a ‘clean’ file generated from my
prepared slides and a version capturing handwritten notes and derivations made during the
lecture. Both sets of notes and any handouts will be available via the website. The website is
run by EOL, so any technical problems you might encounter should be directed to them.
3. Submitting Problem Sets: Problem sets are due on the specified due date and are to be
submitted to me and to the TAs by email, not to EOL. Here are the other particulars.
1) Saved in PDF format, < 5 MB (if scanning a hard copy, don’t use high resolution).
2) Sent by email to me and copy both TAs.
3) Sent by 5 pm (Eastern U.S. time) on the due date.
4. Exams: Here are the particulars.
1) All exams will be proctored. Your proctor will submit your exams to EOL.
2) Refer to the details under Grading basis on the previous page.
3) You may take each exam anytime during the 3-day window comprised of the
scheduled exam date and the two following business days (e.g., for an exam scheduled
on a Friday, it must be received by EOL by close of business the following Tuesday).
5. Returning Graded Problem Sets and Exams: Will be done via email. Graded problem sets
will be sent either by one of the TAs or by EOL. All graded exams will be returned by EOL.
6. Questions/Getting Help: In my experience, this is by far the biggest source of consternation
for online students. Email generally works best, and it is highly recommended that you copy me
and both TAs on all email correspondence. Only if a question is not easily resolved by email,
we might then offer to schedule a more in-depth conversation over the phone or by Skype.
Because of potential lags in email communication, sending questions sooner rather than later is
recommended (i.e., don’t wait until the night before a problem set due date). We fully expect to
receive questions from you by email, so please do not hesitate to use this function.
7. Assigning Grades: CHE 715 is a core course in our graduate curriculum, and therefore the
assignment of grades cannot be affected by the offering of an online section. For this reason,
grading statistics (means and standard deviations) that I distribute are for the live section. At
the end of the semester, course grades for the live section are determined first, and then that
distribution will be used to assign grades for the online section. The only adjustment to the
online section grades is to normalize the averages of the problem set grades, recognizing that
the live cohort has the advantage of communicating with each other about solution approaches.
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COURSE SCHEDULE (important dates and suggested viewing of lectures)
Lecture
1
DATE
Thur Jan 7
TOPICS COVERED
Conservation and flux equations
2
3
Tue Jan 12
Thur Jan 14
Simple transport problems, examples
Scaling and order-of-magnitude analysis
4
5
Mon Jan 18
Tue Jan 19
Thur Jan 21
PS 1 due
(continued)
(continued)
Mon Jan 25
Tue Jan 26
Thur Jan 28
Fri Jan 29
PS 2 due
Solution methods involving scaling
(continued)
MIDTERM EXAM 1
8
9
Tue Feb 2
Thur Feb 4
Fri Feb 5
(continued)
Conduction/diffusion problems: FFTs
PS 3 due
4
5.1-5.8
10
11
Tue Feb 9
Thur Feb 11
(continued)
(continued)
5.1-5.8
5.1-5.8
Mon Feb 15
Tue Feb 16
Thur Feb 18
Fri Feb 19
PS 4 due
No class (JH out of town)
No class (JH out of town)
MIDTERM EXAM 2
4-5 (Lecs. 6-11)
12
13
Tue Feb 23
Thur Feb 25
Fluid mechanics intro, stress and shear
Non-Newtonian fluids, unidirectional flows
6
6.5-6.9, 7.1-7.5
14
15
Tue Mar 1
Thur Mar 3
Fri Mar 4
Unidirectional flows (cont.), lubrication theory
Lubrication theory (cont.)
PS 5 due
Mar 8 & 10
No classes (spring break)
Tue Mar 15
Thur Mar 17
Fri Mar 18
Creeping flow, stream functions
(continued)
PS 6 due
18
Tue Mar 22
Thur Mar 24
MIDTERM EXAM 3
High Re flows, boundary layer analysis
6-8 (Lecs. 12-17)
9
19
20
Tue Mar 29
Thur Mar 31
(continued)
Convective heat/mass: confined flows
9
10.1-10.5
21
22
Tue, Apr 5
Thur Apr 7
Fri Apr 8
(continued)
Taylor dispersion
PS 7 due
10.1-10.5
10.7
23
24
Tue Apr 12
Thur, Apr 14
Convective heat/mass: unconfined flows
(continued)
11.1-11.4
11.1-11.4
Tue Apr 19
Thur Apr 21
Course overview (PS 8 due)
No class (in lieu of Exam 4)
Mon Apr 25
MIDTERM EXAM 4
6
7
16
17
Deen Chapters
Appendix, 1 & 2
1&2
3
3
3
4
4
1-3 (Lectures 1-5)
7.1-7.6
7.6
8
8
9-11 (Lecs. 18-24)
Con
3