Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Flows (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2023)
Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications Series, Vol. 112

This textbook provides a thorough presentation of the phenomena related to the transport of mass (with and without electric charge), momentum and energy.  It lays all the basic physical principles, and then for the more advanced readers, it offers an in-depth treatment with advanced mathematical derivations and ends with some useful applications of the models and equations in specific settings.

The important idea behind the book is to unify 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. The approach and presentation are original in that the book starts with a general description of transport processes, providing the macroscopic balance relations of fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer, before diving into the mathematical realm of continuum mechanics to derive the microscopic governing equations at the microscopic level.

The book is a modular teaching tool and is used either for an introductory or for an advanced graduate course. The last six chapters are of interest to more advanced researchers who might be interested in applications in physics, mechanical engineering or biomedical engineering. In particular, this second edition of the book includes two chapters about electric migration, that is the transport of mass that takes place in a mixture under the action of electro-magnetic fields. Electric migration finds many applications in the modeling of energy storage devices, such as batteries and fuel cells.

All chapters are complemented with solved exercises that are essential to complete the learning process. 

 

Thermodynamics and evolution.- Statics of fluids.- General features of fluid mechanics.- Macroscopic balances.- Velocity and pressure fields.- Fundamental equations of transport phenomena.- Uni-directional flows.- Laminar boundary layer.- Heat Conduction.- Conduction with heat generation.- Macroscopic energy balance.- Time-dependent heat conduction.- Convective heat transport.- Constitutive equation of mass transport.- Steady mass transport.- Unsteady mass transport.- Convective mass transport.- Transport phenomena in turbulent flows.- Natural convection.- Radiation.- Anti-diffusion.- Biomedical engineering applications.- Appendix 1 Properties of pure substances at 1 atm.- Appendix 2 Viscosity and surface tension of several fluids.- Appendix 3 Unit conversions.- Appendix 4 Fundamental equations (Eulerian approach).- Appendix 5 Equations of motion in in curvilinear coordinates.- Appendix 6 Vector and tensor notation.- Solutions of exercises - Part I.- Solutions of exercises - Part II.- Bibliography.- Subject Index.

Roberto Mauri is a professor of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena 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 100 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.