Readings

Readings are chapters/sections from the following books:

[A] Ashby, M. F. Materials Selection in Mechanical Design. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. ISBN: 9780750661683.

[BSL] Bird, R. B., W. E. Stewart, and E. N. Lightfoot. Transport Phenomenon. New York, NY: J. Wiley and Sons, 2001. ISBN: 9780471410775.

[F] Flemings, M. Solidification Processing. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. ISBN: 9780070212831.

[ID] Incropera, F. P., and D. P. DeWitt. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. 5th ed. New York, NY: J. Wiley and Sons, 2001. ISBN: 9780471386506.

[PG] Poirier, D. R., and G. H. Geiger. Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing. Warrendale, PA: Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 1998. ISBN: 9780873392723.

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	MOTIVATING PROCESSES	Readings
L1	Introduction
R1	Math Review
I. Solid Heat Treatment
L2	Introduction Energy Conservation and 1-D Conduction	Various	ID 1.3
L3	Sphere Generation Multilayers		PG 9.4
L4	Multilayers (cont.) Biot # Finite Differences	Glass-ceramics	ID 5.9 Timestepping Algorithms and the Enthalpy Method (PDF) -- an excerpt from Prof. Powell's notes for MIT course 3.021J Spring 2005.
R2	Heat Flow through Multilayer Sheet and Cylinder
L5	Finite Differences (cont.) Radiation	Polymer Extrusion	ID 12
L6	Dimensional Analysis	Furnace Wall
L7	Radiation (cont.) Convective Cooling Curves Dimensionless Graphs	Thermal Spray	PG 9.3
R3	Dimensional Analysis
L8	Convective Cooling Curves (cont.)
II. Engineering Economics
L9	Introduction		Kirchain, R., and F. Field. "Process-Based Cost Modeling: Understanding the Economics of Technical Decisions." In Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering. Vol. 2. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2001, pp. 1718-27. ISBN: 9780080431529.
L10	Cost Modeling I: Unit Operations	Pizza Oven
R4	Economic Models in Engineering
L11	Cost Modeling II: Cost Factors and Scale
III. Liquid-Solid Processing
L12	Moving Bodies	Vacuum Arc Remelting	PG 10.1-10.3
L13	Moving Bodies (cont.) Stability	Casting	F
R5	Casting: Solid-Liquid Process
L14	Stability in Alloy Solidification	Injection Molding	F
IV. Fluid Behavior
L15	Introduction Newtonian Fluids		BSL 1.1-1.2, 2.1-2.2
L16	Test 1
R6	Fluid Flow and Drag Force on a Sphere, with Examples
L17	Viscous Shear
L18	Tubes Flow Rate Sphere Flow	Precipitation, Bubbles	BSL 6.1-6.3
L19	Sphere Drag and Reynolds Number
L20	Engineering and Society Particle Velocity	Lessons of 9/11
L21	Friction Factors Boundary Layers
L22	Plate Drag Turbulence	Fermentation	BSL 5.1-5.2 Video: Turbulence, from the series of Fluid Mechanics Films produced in 1969 by the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films.
R7	Friction Factors and Drag Forces Turbulence
L23	Turbulence (cont.)	Fermentation
L24	Batch and Continuous Flow Reactors	Fermentation	BSL 23.1
L25	Chemical Reactors Porous Media
R8	Batch/Continuous Flow Reactors Flow through Porous Media
L26	Porous Media (cont.)
V. Deformation Processing
L27	Non-newtonian Flow	Various	BSL 8.3, 8.4
L28	Deformation Mechanisms	Polymers, Metals	A 7.5, 7.6
R9	Test 2 Review Warm Up Practice Problems
L29	Sintering	HIP, CM
L30	Test 2
L31	Consolidation Processes	HIP, CM
VI. Vapor-Solid Processes
L32	Evaporation Processes	Zirconia PVD
R10	Sintering (Stage I and Stage II) Evaporation
L33	Vapor Phase Transport Structure Formation	Thin Films
L34	Patterning Polymer Deposition	Polymer Sputter
L35	Coherent/Expitaxial Films Nanostructure Formation	VLS
R11	Mean Free Path Structure Zone Model Fabrication Processes
VII. Special Topics
L36	Process Selection
L37	Costs of Materials Usage
L38	Wrap Up

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