Problem Set 2 Transport Phenomena Plus Formulaire
Problem Set 2 Transport Phenomena Plus Formulaire
Alan Aguirre-Soto
Due date: Sunday, October 10th, 2021 before the end of the day (11:59 pm) uploaded to CANVAS.
Format: Individual.
Suggested resources: Slide sets 1-9 & the sections from the textbook as marked in the slide sets.
1. (35 points) Flow inside a pipeline. You are in a chemical plant working as a process
engineer. The plant is dedicated to the production of a low-molecular weight derivative
from petroleum (after refining and all of that). Your first assignment is to analyze the effect
of the viscosity of the liquid product in the pumping costs of the main pipe that sends the
product from their production facility to their storage facility. The electricity, natural gas,
and oil costs are getting expensive. So, they want to save as much as possible, including in
their pumping expenses. This section of the pipe is positioned perfectly horizontally
between the two facilities (goes underground). For this, they give you about 1 h to provide
an initial approximation of how much the volumetric flow rate is affected by the dynamic
viscosity of the fluid. The liquid product is known to behave as a Newtonian fluid. The pipe
is always at a constant 20˚C. At ambient conditions, the fluid can be considered
incompressible. The pipe has an inner diameter D 0 and a length L. The company runs this
pipe continuously at steady-state and the fluid flow can be considered fully developed
(entrance effects neglected in this section). The Reynolds number for this flow system is
known to be lower than 2100, where the viscosity 𝜇 is known to be constant and the
friction force imposed by the pipe’s inner wall is suspected to be giving flow rates different
from the previously expected values.
From PS #1 (You can use exactly what you answered before or update/improve it)
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containing mechanical pressure and viscous stress terms for the system at steady-
state with no convective terms.
d) (1 points) Explain how you can use the conditions mentioned in the problem
statement to cancel out some terms from your partial differential equation in order
to make it solvable (on paper) within an hour. Explain the cancellation and write
down the final ordinary differential equation that you plan to integrate to model this
flow.
From PS #1 (You can use exactly what you answered before or update/improve it)
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i.(0.5 points) what is the source, the medium and the sink?
ii.(0.5 points) position of your origin and names of your axes
iii.(1 points) control volume and its limits based on the axes
iv. (1 points) what component of the heat flux vector is dominant?
v. (1 points) where are the maximum and minimum temperatures are located
within your control volume?
vi. (1 points) what do you think is the direction of the steady-state heat flux
with its appropriate subindices?
c) (3 points) Draw the appropriate microvolume and do a microbalance for the
transfer of thermal energy by conduction in 3D to obtain a partial differential
equation (PDE) for heat conduction at steady-state considering a heat generation
term, which may be cancelled later on if needed.
d) (1 points) Explain how you can use the some of the information mentioned in the
problem statement to cancel out terms in your PDE in order to simplify it to an ODE.
Explain the cancellation and write down your governing differential equation (GDE)
for heat transfer by conduction through the wall of tube, which is the equation that
you propose solving for an initial simplified model.
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concentration of the pigment inside the capsule remains constant during the experiment
because it is a relatively slow diffusion process. The diffusion coefficient of the pigment
through the polymer 𝔒𝐹𝑃 is constant. The experimental is conducted under isothermal
conditions. No chemical reaction occurs during the experiment.
From PS #1 (You can use exactly what you answered before or update/improve it)
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𝜕𝑣𝑗
𝜏𝑖𝑗 = −𝜇 ( )
𝜕𝑖
𝜕𝑇
𝑞𝑖 = −𝑘 ( )
𝜕𝑖
𝜕𝐶𝛼
𝐽𝛼,𝑖 = −𝐷𝐴𝐵 ( )
𝜕𝑖
𝑛[=]𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑥
𝑁[=]𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑥
𝜔[=]𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑥[=]𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑣𝑖 = 𝜔𝛼 𝑣𝛼,𝑖 + 𝜔𝛽 𝑣𝛽,𝑖
𝑛 =𝜌∙𝑣
𝑛𝛼 = 𝑗𝛼 + 𝜔𝛼 ∙ 𝑛 𝑇
𝜕𝜌 1 𝜕 1 𝜕 𝜕
+ (𝜌𝑣𝑟 ) + (𝜌𝑣𝜃 ) + (𝜌𝑣𝑧 ) = 0
𝜕𝑡 𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟 𝜕𝜃 𝜕𝑧
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𝜕𝜌 1 𝜕 1 𝜕 𝜕 1 𝜕 1 𝜕 𝜕
= −( (𝜌𝑣𝑟 ) + (𝜌𝑣𝜃 ) + (𝜌𝑣𝑧 )) = − ( (𝑛𝑟 ) + (𝑛𝜃 ) + (𝑛𝑧 ))
𝜕𝑡 𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟 𝜕𝜃 𝜕𝑧 𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟 𝜕𝜃 𝜕𝑧
𝜕𝜌 1 𝜕 1 𝜕 1 𝜕
= − ( 2 (𝑟 2 ∗ 𝜌𝑣𝑟 ) + (𝜌𝑣𝜃 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃) + (𝜌𝑣𝜙 ))
𝜕𝑡 𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 𝜕𝜃 𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 𝜕𝜙
1 𝜕 1 𝜕 1 𝜕
= − ( 2 (𝑟 2 ∗ 𝑛𝑟 ) + (𝑛𝜃 ∙ 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃) + (𝑛 ))
𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 𝜕𝜃 𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 𝜕𝜙 𝜙
𝜕𝐶𝐴 1𝜕 1 𝜕 𝜕
= −( (𝑟 ∙ 𝑁𝑟 ) + (𝑁𝜃 ) + (𝑁𝑧 )) + 𝑅𝐴
𝜕𝑡 𝑟 𝜕𝑟 𝑟 𝜕𝜃 𝜕𝑧
𝜕𝐶𝐴
= 𝒟𝐴𝐵 𝛻 2 𝐶𝐴
𝜕𝑡
𝐶𝐴 = 𝑆 ∙ 𝑃𝐴
𝑁𝛼 = −𝐾𝐿 ∙ Δ𝐶𝛼
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𝜕 1 2 1
̂) = − (𝛻 ∙ ( 𝜌𝑣 2 + 𝜌𝑈
( 𝜌𝑣 + 𝜌𝑈 ̂) 𝑣) − (𝛻 ∙ 𝑞) − (𝛻 ∙ 𝑝𝑣) − (𝛻 ∙ [𝜏 ∙ 𝑣]) + 𝜌(𝑣 ∙ 𝑔)
𝜕𝑡 2 2
𝜕 1 2 1
( 𝜌𝑣 ) = − (𝛻 ∙ 𝜌𝑣 2 𝑣) − (𝛻 ∙ 𝑝𝑣) − 𝑝(−𝛻 ∙ 𝑣) − (𝛻 ∙ [𝜏 ∙ 𝑣]) − (−𝜏: 𝛻𝑣) + 𝜌(𝑣 ∙ 𝑔)
𝜕𝑡 2 2
𝐷𝑇 𝜕𝑙𝑛𝜌 𝐷𝑝
𝜌𝐶̂𝑝 = −(𝛻 ∙ 𝑞) − (𝜏 ∶ 𝛻𝑣) − ( )
𝐷𝑡 𝜕𝑙𝑛𝑇 𝑝 𝐷𝑡
𝜕𝑇 𝜕𝑇 𝜕𝑇 𝜕𝑇 𝜕𝑙𝑛𝜌 𝐷𝑝
𝜌𝐶̂𝑝 ( + (𝑣𝑥 + 𝑣𝑦 + 𝑣𝑧 )) = −(𝛻 ∙ 𝑞) − (𝜏 ∶ 𝛻𝑣) − ( )
𝜕𝑡 𝜕𝑥 𝜕𝑦 𝜕𝑧 𝜕𝑙𝑛𝑇 𝑝 𝐷𝑡
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