This book represents a major revision of my book Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes that was published in 1992 by Butterworth-Heinemann. As was the case with the previous book, it is about fluid mechanics and the convective transport of heat (or any passive scalar quantity) for simple Newtonian, incompressible fluids, treated from the point of view of classical continuum mechanics. It is intended for a graduate-level course that introduces students to fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics and convective transport processes (mainly heat transfer and some single solute mass transfer) in a context that is relevant to applications that are likely to arise in research or industrial applications. In view of the current emphasis on small-scale systems, biological problems, and materials, rather than large-scale classical industrial problems, the book is focused more on viscous phenomena, thin films, interfacial phenomena, and related topics than was true 14 years ago, though there is still significant coverage of high-Reynolds-number and high-Peclet-number boundary layers in the second half of the book. It also incorporates an entirely new chapter on linear stability theory for many of the problems of greatest interest to chemical engineers.

The material in this book is the basis of an introductory (two-term) graduate course on transport phenomena. It starts with a derivation of all of the necessary governing equations and boundary conditions in a context that is intended to focus on the underlying fundamental principles and the connections between this topic and other topics in continuum physics and thermodynamics.