Liberal Studies in Engineering - Workshop Report
Support for this event was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Improving Under- graduate STEM Education program (award no.1451399 made to MIT), by the Teagle Foundation, and by the Deans of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and of Claremont Graduate University’s School of Educational Studies.
Discussion Session 3
D. J. C. LAMING (Herrington Geoscience, Exeter) commented on subsurface contours from borehole data, which are always a matter of interpretation. Computergenerated contours look very precise but have a spurious authenticity and do not equal the validity of contours drawn by an experienced geologist. Moreover, it is important to indicate the degree of reliability of subsurface contours so that engineers and planners do not place too much reliance on them: this can be done very simply by using dashed lines where contours are uncertain.
Laminar heat or mass transfer in rectangular channels and in cylindrical tubes for fully developed flow: comparison of solutions obtained for various boundary conditions
Abstract A comparison is made of results obtained with various boundary conditions at the wall of the channels. By comparing blood Sherwood numbers for finite wall resistance with those for constant concentration boundary condition only a small variation is found for various points along the blood channel.