ECH 5261 Advanced Transport Phenomena Fall 2020

Final Exam
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1. A very thick layer of fluid is on top of a plate as shown to the

right. At time zero, the plate is moved in the positive 𝑥 direction at
a constant velocity of 𝑈. No pressure gradient is applied to the
system. You may consider gravity to be orthogonal to 𝑈. The fluid
has density, 𝜌, and viscosity, 𝜇. Find the transient velocity profile
of the fluid. (50 pts)

2. The fluid is being used to treat the plate as part of a

manufacturing process. In order to improve sustainability and use
less fluid, the manufacturer would like to modify the process by
introducing a bounding top plate as shown to the right. The top
plate is moved in the negative 𝑥 direction at velocity, 𝑈. You may
consider the separation between plates, 2𝐻, much less than the length of the plates, 𝐿, and width of the
plates, 𝑤.
(a) Find the steady-state velocity profile. (10 pts)
(b) What are the maximum, minimum, and mean velocities and where do they occur? (10 pts)
(c) What force is required to move the bottom plate? (5 pts)
(d) The manufacturer discovers that start-up is important. Find the transient velocity profile in
dimensionless form. [Hint: You many want to redefine your coordinate system as shown.] (25 pts)

Bonus (No penalty for skipping): Explicitly identify the steady-state and transient parts of your answer
to part (d). (5 extra pts)

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Short Answer (40 pts Total)
3. Name one dimensionless number that you encountered in this course. Describe what rates or driving
forces it is the ratio of. (6 pts)

4. Consider two solids in contact as shown below. We are interested in heat transfer in slab A in the x-
direction.
(a) What is the most general boundary condition that could be written for the interface between slabs A
and B? (4 pts)

(b) How would the boundary condition simplify if 𝑘 ≫ 𝑘 ? (4 pts)

(c) What would this mean physically? (4 pts)

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5. Consider the control volume shown to the right. We are interested in mass transport
of species A through a solvent in the x-direction. There is a surface reaction that
consumes species 𝐴 at 𝑥 𝐿. The surface reaction occurs on an impermeable barrier,
such that species 𝐴 cannot leave the control volume through the surface at 𝑥 𝐿. The
surface reaction is first-order in species 𝐴 with a reaction rate constant, 𝑘. You may
consider the reaction irreversible and ignore transport of products of the reaction.
(a) Write the general boundary condition that applies at 𝑥 𝐿. (2 pts)

(b) If there is no convection within the control volume and binary diffusion of A and the solvent occurs
according to Fick's Law, what is the boundary condition in terms of concentration of 𝐴, 𝑐 ? (4 pts)

(c) If consumption of A by the reaction is much faster than diffusion of A through the CV, how can the
BC be simplified? (Hint: Nondimensionalize the BC.) (5 pts)

(d) If reaction were much slower than diffusion, how can the BC be simplified? (5 pts)

6. List at least 3 methods that can be used to decrease the dimensionality of a problem, e.g. convert a 2D
PDE into 1D. (+2 pts for each correct answer, -1 pt for each incorrect answer)

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Appendix

Deen Table 2-3 excerpt

Thermal Energy Balance in Rectangular Coordinatesa
Ti T T T   2T  2T  2T  H
 vx  vy  vz  2  2  2   V
t x y z  x y z  C p
a
It is assumed that ρ, Cp and k are constant.

Deen Table 5-2

Orthonormal Functions from Eigenvalue Problems in Cartesian Coordinatesa
Case Boundary Condition Basis functions
2 nx
I  0   0      n x   sin , n  1, 2, ...
 
d
II 0  0    n x  
2  1  x
cos n   , n  0,1, 2, ...
dx   2 

0  0  
d 2  1  x
III  n x   sin n   , n  0,1, 2, ...
dx   2 
d
IV 0  0  d   n x  
2
cos
nx
, n  1, 2, ...
dx dx  
1
 0 x  


a
All of these functions satisfy d 2  dx 2   2  for 0  x   .
Please note: for n  0, sinh n   sin n  and cosh n   cosn  .

Deen Table 6-7

Navier-Stokes Equation in Rectangular Coordinates
x component  v x v v v  P   2v  2v  2v 
  v x x  v y x  v z x   g x     2x  2x  2x 
 t x y z  x  x y z 
y component  v v v v  P  v  v  v 
2 2 2

  y  v x y  v y y  v z y   g y     2y  2y  2y 
 t x y z  y  x y z 

z component  v z v v v  P   2v  2v  2v 
  v x z  v y z  v z z   g z     2z  2z  2z 
 t x y z  z  x y z 

Properties of the error function Properties of Bessel’s Functions

2 x s2 𝐽 0 1, 𝐽 0 0
erf  x    e ds
 0
𝑑𝐽 𝜆𝑟
𝜆𝐽 𝜆𝑟
erf(0) = 0 𝑑𝑟
erf(∞) = 1 𝑑
𝑟𝐽 𝜆𝑟 𝜆𝑟𝐽 𝜆𝑟
𝑑𝑟
erf(−∞) = −1
In other words,
d
erf x   2 e  x 1𝑑 𝑑𝐽 𝜆 𝑟
2

𝑟 𝜆 𝐽 𝜆𝑟
dx  𝑟 𝑑𝑟 𝑑𝑟
such that the cylindrical basis functions behave like
rectangular basis functions.
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