Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this materials engineering course on heat, mass, and momentum transport in solids and fluids. Topics include solid-state diffusion, homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions, and spinodal decomposition, alongside heat conduction in solids and convective and radiative boundary conditions. The fluid dynamics portion covers 1-D solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer theory, and turbulent flow, then couples these results with heat conduction and diffusion in fluids to calculate heat and mass transfer coefficients. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and exams as published on MIT OCW, free to access with no certificate offered. The course suits students who already have background in materials science and want the underlying transport equations that govern processing and microstructure evolution.