SE :381: Microscale Thermal Sciences

Introduction: Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Micro channels, Heat pipes, Jets, Valves, Heat sinks, Solar cells, Bearings, Pumps, Flow sensors and actuators, Fins, Drug delivery systems; Transport Equations: Mass, Momentum, Heat and Charge transport equations, Multi-component systems, Characteristic Non-dimensional parameters; Microscale Heat Conduction: Microscale energy transport in solids, Heat transport in thin films and at solid-solid interfaces, Heat conduction in semiconductor devices and interconnects; Convective diffusion Phenomena: Enzyme-substrate reactions, External flow, Internal flow, Channel flow with soluble or rapidly reacting walls, Flow past reacting flat plate; Solutions of Electrolytes: Electric double layer of Debye sheath, Electrokinetic phenomena, Electro osmosis, Electro-osmotic microchannel systems, Electro-osmotic Pumps; Surface Tension Driven Flows: Coating flows, Themocapillary flows, Thermo capillary pump, Diffuso-capillary flows, Marangoni convection and instability; Modeling: Continuum model, Molecular model, Introduction to molecular dynamics simulations and direct simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC); Assorted Journal Papers.

References:

  1. Physicochemical Hydrodynamics: R.F. Probstein, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1994.
  2. Microscale Energy Transport: C.L. Tien, A. Majumdar and F. Gerner, Taylor & Francis, 1998.
  3. Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct Simulation of Gas Flows: G.A. Bird, Clarendon Press, The Oxford Engineering Science Series, 1994.
  4. Solid State Physics: C. Kittel, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
  5. Computer Simulation of Liquids: M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.

Of interest to: Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology Program, Mechanical Engg., Proposed by: Dr. P.K. Panigrahi (Department of Mechanical Engg.)

Other Interested Faculty Members: Dr. K. Muralidhar and Dr. V.B. Shenoy (Department of Mechanical Engg.)
Prerequisite: Basic Fluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer