ABSTRACT
Classical transport phenomena is concerned with the exchange of energy, mass, or momentum between systems of engineering interest and is usually taught in courses on fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer. The scope of transport phenomena encompasses all agents of physical change and transport processes are fundamental to the evolution of the universe and to the success of all life on Earth. A true appreciation of the universe is impossible without an understanding of the concepts involved in transport phenomena. All change occurs through some kind of transport process. Momentum transport is responsible for much of the physical geography of the planet. Couplings of heat and momentum transport in the atmosphere and in the oceans, similar to those occurring between the core and crust of the Earth, result in tornadoes, hurricanes, the major weather front systems of the mid-latitudes, and the great ocean currents.
