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The Basics of Transport Phenomena
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- 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.
Prerequisite
High School physics and basic knowledge of calculus (derivative, integral, simple differential equations) and thermodynamics (concepts of first law and second law, properties of fluids, heat effects).
Instructors
Robert Mudde
Professor of Multiphase Flow at Chemical Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Peter Hamersma
Associate professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Bijoy Bera
Assistant professor
Delft University of Technology
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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