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Posted by u/MFaraday96485 10 months ago 5
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Recommendation for book in transport phenomena
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So for when I start studying transport phenomena next semester, my university has put a transport phenomena comependium as the literature for the course. Their compendia hasn't been great in previous courses and I fear the same for this course. So I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations for the course since transport phenomena is so important 15 Comments SORT BY
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patientsoul 14 points · 10 months ago
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Get the Bible: BSL- ISBN: 978-0-470-11539-8. It is a very good book - but if you are not good at math you are in for aworld of hurt. Share
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qu33gqu3g 3 points · 10 months ago
Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer (Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rorrer) got me through my undergrad transport series Share
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3 points · 10 months ago
As others have said, Transport Phenomena by Bird Stewart & Lightfoot is the standard for undergraduate, but honestly I found its treatment of heat transfer and mass transfer to be far superior to its fluid mechanics. If you're comfortable with tensor notation and vector calculus, Kundu & Cohen's Fluid Mechanics is a standard graduate fluid mechanics text. Really, though, the absolute best "text" I ever had for fluid mechanics was a series of course notes I got from a professor who'd been teaching it for a few decades. Wish I'd been able to get those as a PDF back in the day. Share
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2 points · 10 months ago
I've found BSL's treatment of mass transfer to be poor. It treats it as a parallel to heat and fluid transport to make it more understandable. This is good, because mass transfer is a much more difficult subject than fluids or heat transfer, in my opinion, so pairing it with easier concepts makes it more digestable. However, it does a very poor job of explaining phenomena that is important in mass transfer operations, but does not exist in fluid/heat. For example, simultaneous diffusion and reactions. I've found much better sources to be: About Careers Press
Difficult: Mass Transfer Operations by Treybal Easy: Diffusion in Fluid Systems by Cussler This is just my opinion, though. The R&D stuff I do at work is a paired mass transfer/chemical reaction problem (aerating sewage for biological treatment), so BSL's treatment of mass transfer has really frustrated me. Share
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3 points · 10 months ago
Next we'll have someone criticizing BSL's heat transfer section and we'll have the trifecta! Share
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patientsoul 2 points · 10 months ago
I would disagree with you. You mention that you find the BSL treatment of mass transfer to be rather poor. However, the original request was not for a treatise on mass transfer - but rather materials for transport phenomena. I think this distinction is key. The strength of BSL is that it treats all the topics within the same framework, thus giving a coherent approach to the topic of transport phenomena. I would argue that you can find multiple better books on the individual topics involved in transport phenomena, but that taking that approach as your starting point will almost guarantee a poor understanding of transport phenomena. In short: use BSL to understand transport phenomena, grab high quality specialist texts if you need/want to master the individual disciplines that make up transport phenomena. Share
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mushiettake 1 point · 10 months ago
Seconding Cussler for mass transfer basics. Reading that book gave me the edge over other students who relied on the rushed and poorly given lectures in class because I could actually understand what was going on. Share
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ShanghaiBebop 3 points · 10 months ago
Have you heard of our lord and savior BSL? Share
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4 points · 10 months ago
Bird Stewart lightfoot Share
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keensmirk 2 points · 10 months ago
MIT Course 10 uses Incropera. Excellent book. http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=0471386502&itemTypeId=BKS&bcsId=1737 Share
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amarela22 1 point · 10 months ago
I used it here in Brazil as well, I really like it. Share
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Nesquikcow 2 points · 10 months ago
Coulson and Richardson Volume 1. Straightforward and as easy reading as TP can get. Volume 2 is good for separation processes and Volume 6 is the absolute go to for design projects in undergrad. Share
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jhilpert 2 points · 10 months ago
My university uses "Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles" from Geankoplis and i found it to be rather helpful. Share
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nirvanna94 1 point · 10 months ago
Many have said BSL, which is a good one. I also purchased Wwwr to study for qualifying exams and liked it https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Momentum-Heat-Mass-Transfer/dp/0470128682 Share
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npglal 1 point · 10 months ago
If the course is unified in it's transport phenomena approach, i think BSL will do rather nicely. However, if you have a series of courses, one for each phenomenon, I'd recommend looking into individual, more indepth books. Share
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