Chemical Engineering 815.09 is an advanced momentum transfer course taught at the graduate level. It is assumed that all students have an equivalent background of all aspects of ChE 815.08 (introductory momentum transfer).

The course is designed as a state-of-the-art research tutorial. As such, there will be no examinations. However, the course will involve graduate student participation in class room discussion and a research report. Grading in the course will be on both your discussion and on the report. You will need to participate to obtain a satisfactory grade. Because of the tutorial nature of the course, attendance is required. You cannot receive credit for participation, if you are not there. There will be only about 6 in the class.

The course will involve one major report that will be submitted (draft form) at the beginning of the seventh week. It will be graded on both technical (100%) and English (100%) content. Your grade will be the sq. root of the product. It will be returned by the end of the seventh week. A final draft, upon which your final grade will be based, is due at the last day of class. More details about the report a re available.

The course goal is to provide the background information that is needed to understand the mechanism of turbulence. The general lecture material will deal, in a general manner, with

• Possible approaches: The history and basics to the turbulence problem.
• Specific experimental techniques: Anemometry techniques such as hot-wire anemometry (HWA), laser Doppler anemometry (LDA), particle image velocimetry (PIV), particle tracking anemometry (PTA), and others.
• Numerical approaches: To be considered are direct numerical simulation (DNS), large eddy simulation (LES), and the more design orientated approaches (RANS, Reynolds Average Navier - Stokes equations).
• Important process application: Examples of chemical engineering importance are turbulent motion, mixing and chemical reactions.

An extended outline from two years ago of the material to be covered is availabl e.

The text is The Phenomena of Fluid Motions by Brodkey. Chapters 13 and 14 on turbulence, plus a great deal of additional material will be covered. The book is available at the University bookstore, other local bookstores, and from on-line distributors. It is a new reissue with corrections by Dover. However, the text (also used for ChE 815.08) covers only the background material and will not be used extensively. &nbs p;