Advanced Transport Phenomena

In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics--a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these fields, Sethna limits his main presentation to the topics that future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large supply of carefully crafted exercises, each an introduction to a whole field of study: everything from chaos through information theory to life at the end of the universe Covering the major topics of momentum, energy and mass transfer, this text provides a thorough discussion of transport phenomena, laying the foundation for understanding a wide variety of operations used by chemical engineers. 1. Kinematics -- 2. Foundations for Momentum Transfer -- 3. Differential Balances in Momentum Transfer -- 4. Integral Averaging in Momentum Transfer -- 5. Foundations for Energy Transfer -- 6. Differential Balances in Energy Transfer -- 7. Integral Averaging in Energy Transfer -- 8. Foundations for Mass Transfer -- 9. Differential Balances in Mass Transfer -- 10. Integral Averaging in Mass Transfer -- A. Tensor Analysis -- B. More on the Transport Theorem