[...]... S. 4-1 Diffusion Equation in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates S. 4-2 Diffusion Equation in Arbitrary Orthogonal Coordinates S S Equations of Fluid Motion in Miscellaneous Coordinate Systems SS-1 Navier-Stokes Equations in Cylindrical Coordinates SS-2 Navier-Stokes Equations in Spherical Coordinates S.6 Equations of Motion and Heat Transfer of Non-Newtonian... role in the proper understanding of qualitative features of many phenomena and processes in various areas of natural and engineering sciences The corresponding sections of the book may be used by college and university lecturers of courses in chemical engineering science, hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and physicochemical hydrodynamics for graduate and postgraduate students In Chapters 1 and. .. 6 Hydrodynamics and Mass and Heat Transfer in Non-Newtonian Fluids 6.1 Rheological Models of Non-Newtonian Incompressible Fluids 6. 1-1 Newtonian Fluids 6. 1-2 Nonlinearly Viscous Fluids 6. 1-3 Power-Law Fluids 6. 1-4 Reiner-Rivlin Media 6. 1-5 Viscoplastic Media... simplifies understanding the material A detailed table of contents readily allows the reader to find the desired information A lot of material and its compact presentation permit the book to be used as a concise handbook in chemical engineering science and related fields in hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, etc The authors are grateful to A E Rednikov and Yu S Ryazantsev, who wrote Sections 5. 8-5 .10, Z... postgraduate and graduate students, in chemical engineering science, hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, mechanics of disperse systems, physicochemical hydrodynamics, power engineering, meteorology, and biomechanics Basic Notation Latin Symbols characteristic scale of length; radius of spherical particle or circular cylinder radius of volume-equivalent sphere radius of perimeter-equivalent sphere (for body... films in which viscous and gravity forces are in balance, the hydrodynamic laws of steady-state laminar flow virtually determine the rate of mass exchange in various apparatuses, like packed absorbing and fractionating columns, widely used in chemical and petroleum industry In these columns, the films flow over the packing surface whose linear dimensions do not exceed a few centimeters (Raschig rings,... reactions, absorption, extraction, and rectification In Chapter 5 some problems of mass and heat transfer with various complicating factors are discussed Mass transfer problems are investigated for various xvi PREFACE kinetics of volume and surface chemical reactions Nonlinear problems of convective mass and heat exchange are considered taking into account the dependence of the transfer coefficients on concentration... encompassed in both undergraduate and graduate courses is inevitably increasing each year This wide variety of subjects makes it difficult to cover the whole subject matter of chemical engineering in a single book The present series is therefore planned as a number of books covering areas of chemical engineering which, although important, are not treated at any length in graduate and postgraduate standard... S. 6- 1 Equations in Rectangular Cartesian Coordinates S. 6-2 Equations in Cylindrical Coordinates S. 6-3 Equations in Spherical Coordinates Index References Introduction to the Series The subject matter of chemical engineering covers a very wide spectrum of learning and the number... processes of chemical engineering science We present up-to-date results about translational and shear flows past particles, drops, and bubbles of various shapes at a wide range of Reynolds numbers Single particles and systems of particles are considered Film and jet flows, fluid flows through tubes and channels of various shapes, and flow past plates, cylinders, and disks are examined In Chapters 3 and 4 . 1 Infinite Plane Disk 3. 2-2 . Disk of Finite Radius 3.3. Heat Transfer to a Flat Plate . 3. 3- 1 Heat Transfer in Laminar Flow 3. 3-2 . Heat Transfer in Turbulent Flow 3.4. Mass Transfer. book for other titles in the Topics in Chemical Engineering series. HYDRODYNAMICS, MASS AND HEAT TRANSFER IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING A.D. Polyanin lnstitute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow,. researchers and engineers, as well as postgraduate and graduate students, in chemical engineering science, hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, mechanics of disperse systems, physico- chemical hydrodynamics,