Heat and Mass Transfer in Metallurgy
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Heat and Mass Transfer in Metallurgy Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Heat and Mass Transfer in Metallurgy (subject code 2142105) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 45 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2142105)Unit 1 Fluid Behaviour
- Definition and classification of fluids
- Newtonian and non- Newtonian fluids
- Viscous and non-viscous fluids
- General features of fluid flow
- Laminar and turbulent flow
Unit 2 Mass and Momentum Balance
- Differential mass balance (continuity equation)
- Differential momentum balance (equation of motion)
- Navier Stokes Equation
- Application of Differential Balance Equation
- Overall mass balance and momentum balance
- Euler's equation and its integration to obtain Bernoulli's equation
- Flow through fluidised beds
- Flow rate measuring equipments
Unit 3 Conductive Heat Transfer
- Modes of heat transfer
- Conduction of heat through solid
- Steady and unsteady state
- Fourier law of heat conduction
- General equation of heat conduction in cartesian co-ordinate
- spherical and cylindrical systems
Unit 4 Convective Heat Transfer
- Convective heat transfer
- Free and forced convection
- Application dimensional analysis of effective boundary layer
Unit 5 Radiative Heat Transfer
- Aspects of Radiative Heat Transfer
- absorption and transmission of radiation
- Black body radiation
- Planck's Law
- Wein's distribution Law
- Heat transfer between two bodies by radiation
- Lambert's Law
Unit 6 Mass Transfer
- Fluid flow and its relevance to mass transfer
- General mass transport equation
- Modes of mass transfer
- Film and boundary layer theories
- Diffusion-diffusion convection
- Generalised diffusion equation
- Diffusivity in gases
- liquids and solids
- Steady diffusion
- Pseudo-steady diffusion
- Diffusion through porous solids
- Convective mass transfer- Mass transfer in fluid at solid-fluid interface
- Mass transfer between two fluids
- Mass transfer v/s chemical control
- enhancement of process rates
- Application to metallurgical system