Mass Transport in Solids and Fluids

The field of matter transport is central to understanding the processing of materials and their subsequent mechanical properties. While thermodynamics determines the final state of a material system, it is the kinetics of mass transport that governs how it gets there. This book, first published in 2000, gives 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. Traditionally matter transport in fluids is considered as an extension of heat transfer and can appear to have little relationship to diffusion in solids. This unified approach clearly makes the connection between these important fields. This book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of materials science and engineering and related disciplines. It contains numerous worked examples and unsolved problems. The material can be covered in a one semester course.

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.

Using a unified phenomenological treatment of matter transport applicable to both solids and liquids, this novel 2000 textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, gives a solid grounding in the principles of matter transport and their application to a range of materials science and engineering problems.