The Basics of Transport Phenomena
Have you ever wondered why ventilation helps to cool down your hot chocolate? Do you know why a surfing suit keeps you warm? Why iron feels cold, while wood feels warm at room temperature? Or how air is transferred into aqueous liquids in a water treatment plant? How can we sterilize milk with the least amount of energy? How does medicine spread in our tissue? Or how do we design a new cooling tower of a power plant? All these are phenomena that involve heat transfer, mass transfer or fluid flow.
Transport Phenomena investigates such questions and many others, exploring a wide variety of applications ranging from industrial processes to environmental engineering, to transport processes in our own body and even simple daily life problems
In this course we will look into the underlying concepts of these processes, that often take place simultaneously, and will teach you how to apply them to a variety of real-life problems. You will learn how to model the processes and make quantitative statements.
What you'll learn
- Identify heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid flow phenomena in lab, industrial and daily environment.
- Identify quantities and subjects used in transport phenomena.
- Use balances to solve problems.
- Apply the concepts of transport phenomena to a variety of real life problems.
- Make the correct assumptions to put real-life situations into mathematical model.
- Solve and assess a model from a quantitative perspective.
- See the world through different eyes.
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| Rating | 4.5★ based on 2 ratings |
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| Length | 7 weeks |
| Effort | 7 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
| Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
| Cost | $159 |
| From | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), DelftX, Delft University of Technology via edX |
| Instructors | Robert Mudde, Peter Hamersma, Bijoy Bera |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science |
| Tags | Biology & Life Sciences Engineering Physics |
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den akker & mudde
Although all necessary materials are provided, students should consider picking up the recommended textbook (van den Akker & Mudde, "Transport Phenomena – The Art of Balancing"), which is unusually well-written and, like the course, emphasizes interesting problems rather than dry abstractions.
goes into greater depth
This course covers about half of what's in the textbook (which obviously goes into greater depth), and a further MOOC, covering more of the material, is slated for release in Fall 2016.
involving differential equations can
Although any course involving differential equations cannot be categorized as easy, the instructors teach from first principles and anticipate areas of likely confusion.
rather than dry abstractions
although all necessary materials
each unit begins with
Each unit begins with an entertaining video illustrating the subject matter in a practical context.
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The problems they have chosen for the course are engaging and fun -- thermal baths in Iceland, the Three Gorges Dam in China, painting the Eiffel Tower, the formation of acid rain, and ground contamination due to landfill leaching.
categorized as easy
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graded problem set
The instruction is uniformly excellent: the professors present a unit of theory followed by problems they solve step-by-step, and then you're on your own for a graded problem set covering that week's material.
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| Rating | 4.5★ based on 2 ratings |
|---|---|
| Length | 7 weeks |
| Effort | 7 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
| Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
| Cost | $159 |
| From | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), DelftX, Delft University of Technology via edX |
| Instructors | Robert Mudde, Peter Hamersma, Bijoy Bera |
| Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science |
| Tags | Biology & Life Sciences Engineering Physics |
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