Course Introduction

Course Description: Transport and chemical rate phenomena are critical to a large number of disciplines in engineering and sciences. They range from heat transport for structural  engineers, to the development of high explosives, from quark-gluon plasmas to  astrophysics of stellar evolution. Earth and environmental engineering, which is about  understanding and managing the global material cycles, requires a detailed understanding of transport and reaction rate phenomena. Within this field there are numerous sub-specialties and applications, and a course like this cannot hope to cover them all.  Consequently, we aim at developing the fundamentals of transport theory and discuss a number of different applications, from mechanical and chemical engineering to atmospheric and ocean chemistry. We plan to bring out the Similarities and develop the skill of applying basic principles to diverse applications. While the course does not teach computational modeling, it will provide the basic insights in constructing computer models.

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