An Introduction to Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering

This classic textbook book helps readers understand the basic physics of transport phenomena and how to apply them to materials processing. The Third Edition offers a significant shift in the approach to this subject, representing an evolution incorporating the original ideas and extending them to a more comprehensive approach to the topic.

David R. Gaskell (1940-2013) was Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University from 1982 until 2013. Dr. Gaskell was born in Glasgow, Scotland and attended The Royal College of Science and Technology, receiving First Class Honors in Metallurgy and Technical Chemistry for his B.Sc. in 1962. He immigrated to Hamilton, Canada to pursue graduate studies at McMaster University. During his career, he served as a visiting professor at the NRC Atlantic Regional Laboratory, Canada and at the G. C. Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extraction Metallurgy in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Gaskell was dedicated to teaching and was the recipient of the Reinhardt Schumann Jr. Best Undergraduate Teacher Award in Materials Engineering several times over.

Matthew John M. Krane is Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University and a member of the Purdue Center for Metal Casting Research and the Purdue Heat Treatment Center. Using modeling and experiments, his research is on the connection between macroscopic transport phenomena and defect formation during materials processes, particularly the study of solidification of metal alloys. Professor Krane has been with Purdue Materials Engineering since 1996, but his education is in mechanical engineering (Cornell, BS, ’86; Pennsylvania, MS, ’89; Purdue, PhD, ’96), with a concentration in heat transfer and fluid flow. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Greenwich (UK) and the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France). In addition to consulting, research programs, and undergraduate projects with the metals processing industry during his time at Purdue, he worked in industry for three years on thermal issues in design and manufacturing of electronic packaging.