Mass Transport in Solids and Fluids

The field of matter transport is central to understanding the processing of materials and their subsequent mechanical properties. This text 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. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of materials science and engineering and related disciplines, the book contains numerous worked examples and unsolved problems.

This book treats the subject of how matter is transported within a material. The subject is of fundamental importance to the education of metallurgists, ceramicists and materials engineers. The book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students, and takes a more phenomenonological approach than more traditional books on diffusion. The book contains numerous worked examples and a large set of more complex problems which will test the student's knowledge of the subject.