Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schmitt

Workload: 2 SWS (3 ECTS as a module)

Recommended prerequisites: Thermodynamics of mixtures, heat transfer

Start: Tue, April 14, 2026

Tutorials:

Will be announcedduring the lecture.

Office hours:

Office hours for the lecture and tutorial are offered by appointment. Please contact Jens Wagner directly via email.

Examination:

An oral examination will take place at the end of the course. Dates will be announced in due time

Contents:

• Relationships, similarities, and differences between heat, momentum, and mass transport
• Driving potentials
• Cross effects (e.g., Soret)
• Fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics
• Modeling approaches
• Material properties (thermal conductivity, viscosity, diffusion coefficients)
• Fickian diffusion
• Maxwell-Stefan diffusion
• Heat and mass transfer
• Diffusion in external fields

• Focus: fluids (gases and liquids)

   

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