Faculty
William Strieder, Professor
Education
B.S. Pennsylvania State University (1959)
Ph.D. Case Institute of Technology (1963)
Professional Experience
Postdoctral University of Brussels (I. Prigogine) (1963-1965)
Postdoctral University of Minnesota (S. Prager) (1965-1966)
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame (1966 -1970)
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame (1970 -1982)
Professor, University of Notre Dame (1982 - present)
Consultant, Whirlpool Corp.(St. Joseph, MI), Plastics Engineering (Sheboygan, WI), CTS Corporation(Elkhart, IN)
Research Interests
Heterogeneous two-phase materials are often encountered in engineering practice, and a knowledge of their thermal transport coefficients is important in many heat transfer calculations. Current heat transfer research programs include exact solutions for high temperature radiation heat transport across a number of regular spherical, cylindrical and ellipsoidal cavity geometries encountered in insulating ceramic brick, solid nuclear fuel elements and high temperature gas-solid reactions. Rigorous solution of the radiation heat transfer multiple scattering problem across random void-solid packings are being formulated in order to calculate the effective boundary emissivity coefficient of packed and fluidized beds, as well as the internal void radiation transport coefficient. Other areas of active interest are conductive heat transport in composite materials; heat transport coupled with ice melting, conductive and convective heat transport in porous beds and low-temperature cryogenic insulation.
Interfacial phenomena can play a significant role in both chemical reaction and separation processes. Equations for the effective surface diffusivity and surface tortuosity in terms of the fundamental constants of the molecular diffusion and adsorption surface processes and the structure of the porous medium are being developed. Other research programs include the effects of interfacial cell wall resistance in heart muscle tissue transport and the statistical mechanics of interfacial separation processes.
The effects of volume change on mass transport in coupled gas-solid reaction systems both on the level of the individual reacting particle and within a compact of particles can influence a number of chemical engineering operations. The selectivity of the parallel oxide and sulfate reactions in the reduction of metal sulfide particles is being studied to determine the importance of particle size and the different volume changes of each product. The experimental study and theoretical modeling of the reaction-bonding synthesis of silicon nitride from silicon powder compacts is a current area of investigation.
Publications
N. McDonald and W. Strieder. Competitive Interaction Between Two Different Spherical Sinks. Journal of Chemical Physics, 121:7966 - 7972, 2004.
X. LI and W. Strieder. Fiber Bed Effective Emissivities from Muttiple Scattering Calculkations. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 43:3041 - 3048, 2004.
N. McDonald and W. Strieder. Diffusion and Reaction for a Spherical Source and Sink. Journal of Chemical Physics, 118:4598 - 4605, 2003.
D. Qui. L.Lao, R. Aravamuthan and W. Strieder. Migration and Orientation of Elliptical Particles in Poiseuille Flows. Journal of Statistical Physics, 107:101 - 120, 2002.
M. Maalmi, A. Varma and W. Strieder. Ligand Diffusion and Receptor Mediated Internalization: Michaelis - Menten Kinetics. Chemical Engineering Science, 56:5609 = 5616, 2001.
X. LI and W. Strieder. Improved Estimates of High Temperature Fiber Bed Effective Emissivities from Variational Calculations. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 44:6989 - 6998, 2005.
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Courses
- CBE 20256 - Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics - This course covers the basic concepts of chemical engineering thermodynamics. It includes a review of the First Law (which was originally covered in CBE 20255), and an introduction to the Second ... more >
- CBE 30338 - Chemical Process Control - While the idealization of chemical processes is that they are operated at steady-state, they are in fact usually dynamic (unsteady state). Process feed compositions may change slightly, ambient con... more >
- CBE 31358 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory I - Chemical engineering laboratory courses are comprised of experiments that cover most of the major subject areas of chemical engineering. The rationale for combining all of the topics into two separ... more >
- CBE 41459 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory II - Chemical engineering laboratory courses are composed of experiments that cover most of the major subject areas of chemical engineering. The rationale for combining all of the topics into two separa... more >
- CBE 60553 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics - This course is focused on an advanced treatment of thermodynamic concepts. An introduction to molecular thermodynamics is given, followed by detailed treatments of phase equilibrium, equation-of-st... more >
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