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Mass transport in solids and fluids

This text seeks to provide a solid grounding in the principles of matter transport and their application to a range of engineering problems. The author develops a unified treatment of mass transport applicable to both solids and liquids
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge, Cambridge, 2000
400p. : ill. ; 25cm. Paperback.
9780521624947, 0521624940
1314377166
Part I. Overview: 1. Introduction to mass transport; Part II. Solid State Diffusion in Dilute Alloys: 2. Steady-state diffusion; 3. Transient diffusion problems; 4. Applications to problems in materials engineering; 5. Applications involving solid-gas reactions; 6. Heat treatment of binary alloys; Part III. Mass Transport in Fluids and Concentrated Alloys: 7. Diffusion in fluids and concentrated alloys; 8. Mass transport in the presence of convection; 9. Advanced topics; 10. General driving force for diffusion; Appendices: A. Mathematical method for the solution of Fick's second law; B. Selected diffusion data; C. Selected binary phase diagrams; D. Solving problems by developing conceptual models.