Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes

Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering)

Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering)
By L. Gary Leal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 932
Publication Date: 2007-06-18
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521849101
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521849104
Binding: Hardcover

Advanced Transport Phenomena is ideal as a graduate textbook. It contains a detailed discussion of modern analytic methods for the solution of fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer problems, focusing on approximations based upon scaling and asymptotic methods, beginning with the derivation of basic equations and boundary conditions and concluding with linear stability theory. Also covered are unidirectional flows, lubrication and thin-film theory, creeping flows, boundary layer theory, and convective heat and mass transport at high and low Reynolds numbers. The emphasis is on basic physics, scaling and non-dimensionalization, and approximations that can be used to obtain solutions due either to geometric simplifications, or large or small values of dimensionless parameters. The author emphasizes setting up problems and extracting as much information as possible short of obtaining detailed solutions of differential equations. The book is also focused on the solutions of representative problems. This reflects the author's bias toward learning to think about the solution of transport problems.

Summary: Grain of salt
Rating: 2

Leal's book has parts that are very well written and in depth, particularly those of Stoke's flow, creeping flow, and parts of dimensional analysis. However, this is mitigated by how disorganized and bombastic the book is. This book does not make a good reference text as the chapters are hard to read in isolation from the other chapters. For exaxmple, several sections on dimensional analysis refer to previous chapters without explicitly saying where the formulas came from. In addition, there is a great deal of redefining variables which is poorly explained and makes the book very hard to follow. A lot of the notation in this book is also counter to a bulk of notation used in the books available on this topic, especially the vector notation (for example, using "^" to represent the cross product as opposed to "X"). As this book is fairly new, there are several mistakes for which there is no errata to go too. Use this book with a bit of caution; it does a great job of working through the math, but it is not the best book on the market. I would recommend the outstanding texts by Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot and William Deen.

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