The course mission is to provide the fundamental knowledge concerning momentum, mass and energy trasport phenomena.

Expected competences are:
- Mass, momentum and energy conservation laws, macroscopic and differential balance equations.
- Momentum transport: fluid statics and fluid dynamics.
- Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation.
- Mass transfer: molecular and turbolent diffusion .
- Analogy between the transport phenomena, heat and mass transfer coefficients, friction factors.

Expected skills:
- Phenomenological and analitycal analysis of transport phenomena by global and local balance equations.
- Evaluation of momentum, heat and mass transfer kinetics in ideal systems.
- To make material and energy balances of a single stage and multi-stage apparatus.

Basic integral and differential calculus

Integral properties balances: terms of the balance equations; mass and molar balance, reaction rate, momentum balance in fluid systems, energy balances (entalpy,Bernoullli's relations).
Molecular transport phenomena in ideal gas phases, Fick's law, Fourier law and Newton law, transport properties (viscosity, thermal conductivity, mass diffusivity), reology, turbolence.
Elements of fluid's mechanics: static fluids: Stevin law, mechanical stress on containers, buoyant force; fluid dynamics and momentum transfer: share stress, laminar flow in ducts, friction factor, local and distributed energy losses; flow around solid bodies.
Heat transfer: condution in solids; heat convection, heat transfer coefficients, analogies between transport phenomena; thermal radiation: absorption and emission of radiant energy, emissivity, Kirchoff's law, the black body, Lambert's law, emission spectrum, Planck's and Wien's relations, radiation transfer between black and grey bodies, view factors.
Mass transfer: mass and molar flux, diffusion in binary systems, interphase mass transfer: mass transfer coefficient, film and penetration theories, global driving force and coefficient.
Local balances: Lagrange's and Euler's approaches, terms od local balances equations, continuity equation, local momentum balance, share stress tensor, Navier-Stokes equations; local energy balances, local mass balances in multicomponent systems.

Handouts are available on the web page of the course.
Reference book:
- Transport Phenomena / R.B. Bird et al. - New York: Wiley, 2002

The exam consists of two written tests. The first test lasts 45 minutes and includes a large set of theoretical questions about the course program; for some questions predetermined responses are proposed, others require brief demonstrations or the representation of data & principles in graphic form. The second test lasts one hour and 45 minutes and requires the solution of exercises concerning integral balances and transport phenomena. During both written tests, students can only consult the material provided by the teacher; no other sources of information such as books, manuals, or notes are allowed. The final vote is the arithmetic average of the votes obtained in the two tests.