Dr. Nana Ofori-Opoku

4 unit(s) Phenomenological and mechanistic approaches to steady and non-steady state diffusion, boundary conditions, mechanisms of diffusion, Arrhenius behaviour, gassolid reactions, precipitate growth and dissolution, plate and spherical geometries, plane front solidification, diffusion in concentrated alloys, the Kirkendall effect, the interdiffusion coefficient, diffusion couples with intermediate phases, mass transport with convection, transient diffusion in fluids, the mass transfer coefficient. Two lectures, three hours, two tutorials one hour; first term. Prerequisite(s): MATLS 2D03 and MATH 2ZZ3; and Registration in Level II or above in Materials Engineering