Advanced Transport Phenomena (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) [Paperback]

John C. Slattery (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521635659 | ISBN-13: 978-0521635653 | Publication Date: July 13, 1999 0

The term "transport phenomena" describes the fundamental processes of momentum, energy, and mass transfer. The author provides a thorough discussion of transport phenomena, laying the foundation for understanding a wide variety of operations used by chemical engineers. The book is arranged in three parallel parts covering the major topics of momentum, energy, and mass transfer. Each part begins with the theory, followed by illustrations of the way the theory can be used to obtain fairly complete solutions, and concludes with the four most common types of averaging used to obtain approximate solutions. A broad range of technologically important examples, as well as numerous exercises, are provided throughout the text. Based on the author's extensive teaching experience, a suggested lecture outline is also included. This book is intended for first-year graduate engineering students; it will be an equally useful reference for researchers in this field. Solutions manual available.

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"Prof. Slattery has made a great service to the heat transfer community and must be sincerely congratulated." MATH, vol. 963

"...an immensely enjoyable tome to browse through many times...this book makes a significant and substantial advance in the BSL unifying theme of transport phenomena. The underlying idea...of this advance is ambitious and perhaps even brilliant..." Applied Mechanics Reviews

Book Description

This text discusses the fundamental processes of momentum, energy, and mass transfer and lays the foundation for understanding a wide variety of operations used by engineers. The book is arranged in three parallel parts covering the major topics of momentum, energy, and mass transfer. Each part begins with the theory, followed by illustrations using the theory to obtain fairly complete solutions, and concludes with averaging methods used to obtain approximate solutions. A broad range technologically important examples and numerous exercises are provided throughout the text. Intended for first-year graduate engineering students, the book will be equally useful as a reference for researchers. Solutions manual available.

Product Details

• Paperback: 734 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521635659
• ISBN-13: 978-0521635653
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,406,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well guided tour trough understanding transport phenomena, March 7, 2000

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"vnauta" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Transport Phenomena (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) (Paperback)

Transport Phenomena is a traditionally hard-subject in every curriculum related to unit operations in chemical engineering. Its difficult because of its mathematical basis, and moreover, by the lack of practical insight. The appendices and first chapters depicts the major mathematical foundations. Separated subjects (momentum, energy and mass transfer) makes easy to the reader just getting what he needs. Focusing on problem solving, shows the way previous knowledge integrates a new approach: governing laws, math techniques, effects of geometry and scale, time dependent processes and averaging techniques. definitely, this book is an obliged read to whom really likes engineering.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars timeless. *the* add-on for Bird's BSL1! strong buy, top recommendation., January 27, 2010

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Mark Twain "Sam" (Florida, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Transport Phenomena (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) (Paperback)

The book in its 1999 version is in fact a "Third Edition" of its monograph originally published as "Momentum, energy, and mass transfer in continua" in 1971 by McGraw-Hill, New York, then re-published in 1978 by R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., New York, until the Second Edition came out in 1981 (published by R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., New York). This work, if not a text, is truely admirable and timeless in its organization&structure, scope&comprehensiveness, precision&detail, notation&nomenclature, clarity and.. beauty. Bird's 'red bible' is the foremost introduction to the field, also very comprehensive and a must-start at undergraduate level. Then, when you are ready for a compact scholarly treatment at an advanced level (treating of course also more advanced topics), switch to this beauty. Since its first appearance in 1971, the book had been evolving for 28 years, and has now reached its fully developed, 'technically mature', perfected state (and also with no typos found). Apart from the fine reading itself, the book features superb quality paper (book is thick and heavy, even as paperback), incorporates numerous helpful examples, 134 b/w illustrations, a vast number of 75(!) tables (equation collecting/summarizing tables similar to those found in Bird's red book), 454 exercises, 70 pages of Appendices (mainly on advanced tensor calculus subjects), a generous section with References, an author index, and a subject index. Mass transport, energy transport, and momentum transport are equally well covered. At graduate level, this the most balanced and sophisticated treatise of transport phenomena ever. Buy and keep it (and sell back your copy of Deen's or return the library copy of it after your grad course). Slattery's is a timeless book on your shelf. To read, use, love and admire.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and excellent text., September 22, 2007

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RacemicMixture "Chemical Engineer" (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Transport Phenomena (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) (Paperback)

This is an amazing text for those looking for an advanced treatise to transport phenomena.