Course content

Conservation equations: Conservation equations for global mass, momentum, energy and chemical components in fluid mixtures. Dimensional analysis. Flow around particles, drops and bubbles, Ergun's formula for packed beds.

Boundary layer theory: Velocity, temperature and concentration profiles. Heat and mass transfer coefficients. Nusselt and Sherwood correlations. Two and three fold analogies. Liquid metals with low Prandtl numbers. Turbulent transport. Reynold's analogies. Chemical reaction kinetics at phase boundaries.

Numerical simulations: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and its application to metallurgical and electrochemical systems.

Thermal radiation: Emission, absorbtion, reflection. Adiabatic surfaces. Radiation in multi surface systems, view angle factors.

Electrochemical kinetics: Relations between electric current/voltage and species conversion.

Transport of charged species: Mass fluxes in context of Nernst-Planck and concentrated solution theory, current distribution in selected geometries.

Porous electrode theory: Electrochemical reactions in porous electrodes with coupling of reaction kinetics and transport processes.

Learning outcome

After this course the student can:

- Identify and describe transport phenomena dominating processes in metallurgical and electrochemical systems.

- Explain various aspects regarding transport/transfer of mass, momentum, energy, and chemical components in fluid mixtures or between phases.

- Perform basic computations on transport/transfer of mass, momentum, and energy in idealized (sub-)systems, e. g. by application of boundary layer theory or correlations for energy and mass transfer.

- Choose necessary actions for incorporation of chemical reaction kinetics as well as treatment of particles, droplets and bubbles in the overall global conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy.

- Identify and describe electrochemical reaction rates, and how these relate to current and voltage in electrochemical cells

- Formulate and analyze problems involving radiation in multi-surface systems.

- Use methods for finding and evaluating estimates based on dimensional analysis and analogies for heat and mass transfer.

- Introduce simplifying assumptions for computations and assess the validity of the simplifications done.

- Perform calculations of electrochemical cells with coupled kinetics and transport phenomena.

- Set up and interpret simple numerical simulations in heat and mass transfer related problems.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures (60 hours), exercises (30 hours) and self study (120 hours).

Lectures will be given in English and examination papers will be given in English only.

80% of the exercises must be approved before the final exam.

Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Subject TKP4100 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer or equivalents.

Subject TMT4252 Electrochemistry or equivalents.

Course materials

1.Compendium Lecture notes - Department of materials science and engineering ;

2. Modeling in Materials Processing; J.A. Dantzig, C.L. Tucker III, ISBN: 0-521-77923-5.

3. Transport Phenomena, R.B. Bird. et.al ISBN:0471-410772;

4. Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering, A.C. West ISBN: 9781470076047

5. Additional material supplied at start of semester

Credit reductions