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REFERENCES

Bird, R.B., W.C. Stewart and E.N. Lightfoot, 1960, Transport Phenomena, Wiley,
New York.

Kelvin, W.T., 1864, The secular cooling of the earth, Trans. Roy. SOC. Edin. 23,
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SUGGESTED REFERENCES FOR FURTHER
STUDY

Brodkey, R.S. and H.C. Hershey, 1988, Transport Phenomena - A Unified
Approach, McGraw-Hill, New York.
Cussler, E.L., 1997, Diffusion - Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, 2nd Ed., Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.

Fahien, R.W., 1983, Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena, McGraw-Hill, New
York.

PROBLEMS

2.1 Three parallel flat plates are separated by two fluids as shown in the figure
below. What should be the value of Y2 so as to keep the plate in the middle
v, = 1 ds -
stationary?
-T

Fluid B (p~ 0.8 cP) y2
=
I

Y1=5cm
1
FluidA (pA = 1 cP)
-V,=2ds

(Answer: 2 cm)