Elementi Di Fenomeni Di Trasporto

This textbook is an introduction to transport phenomena that describe the transfer of the three quantities that are conserved in nature, namely mass, momentum and energy (the transport of electric charge can be seen as a particular case of the transport of mass).

It features the idea of unifying all types of transport phenomena, describing them within a common framework in terms of cause and effect, respectively represented by the driving force and the flux of the transported quantity. However the originality of the book lies in the way in which the subject is presented. The approach is somewhat reversed in comparison to the great majority of the books on transport phenomena. In this book the physical facts (that have to be modeled) and the macroscopic balance relations are shown first, and only afterwards the related rigorous microscopic governing equations are derived and solved.

The text can be used for teaching a two-term course. The first 16 chapters cover the material for a full transport phenomena course. In the last 5 chapters, more advanced topics are treated, and could be selected by the instructor for particular applications. For example, mechanical engineering students may choose turbulence and natural convection, students of physics may opt for radiation and phase separation, while students of biomedical engineering will find interesting applications in chapter 20.

Each chapter includes exercises at the end. They are an essential part of the book and students are required to solve them, preferably without glancing at their solutions, which are reported at the end of the book.

The book is based on thirty years of teaching experience in industrial engineering and physics, both in the U.S. and in Italy.

Roberto Mauri is a professor of Chemical Engineering (DICCISM) at the University of Pisa, Italy. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Politecnico di Milano and his Ph.D. from Technion, Haifa, Israel in 1984. He has been a visiting professor and teacher at MIT (Cambridge, USA), City College of CUNY and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA). Professor Mauri has more than 60 publications to his name. He received the Landau prize in Tel Aviv in 1984.

In 2012 he published his book "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in Multiphase Flows" with Springer.c