Number of hours
- Lectures 12.0
- Projects 0
- Tutorials 12.0
- Internship 0
- Laboratory works 0
ECTS
ECTS 2.0
Goal(s)
- Present and describe the fondamental laws of mass transfer
- Describe point defects in metals and ceramics and their role on diffusion process
- Quantifying the phenomena relating to the mass transfers in fluids and solids
- Study of laminar and turbulent boundary layers
- Study of specific cases involving diffusion process
Content(s)
A) Mass transfer in fluids
1. Introduction
2- Mass transfer
3- Global and local equations
4- Laminar and turbulent boundary layers
5- Analogies with heat transfer and use of correlation
B) Mass transfer in solids
1. Introduction
2- Diffusion and mass transport in solids
3- Defects in solids
4- Atomic diffusion theory
5- Autodiffusion
6- Heterodiffusion
7- Diffusion and transport in alloys and compounds (interdiffusion)
8- Diffusion at interfaces
9- Reactive diffusion
10- Diffusion equation solutions for some specific cases
11- Diffusion in ternary systems (elementary notions)
Prerequisites
Crystallography, thermodynamic of solutions, phase diagrams
Test
Sessions 1 and 2 : Final exam, Weight: 100%, Written exam, duration 2h, the only authorized document: 1 sheet of A4 paper double-sided handwritten, calculator allowed.
Bibliography
B.R. Bird, W.E. Stewart, E.N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, John Wiley & Sons, 2006
F.P. Incropera, D.P. DeWitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 4ème edition, Wiley, 1996
J. Philibert, Diffusion et transport dans les solides, Les éditions de la physique, 1985
P. Shewmon, Diffusion in solids, 2ème édition. The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, USA, 1989
M. Barsoum, Fundamentals of Ceramics, Mc Graw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1997
J. Crank, The Mathematics of Diffusion, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975