Heat Transfer

by Gregory Nellis, Sanford Klein

The single objective of this book is to provide engineers with the capability, tools, and confidence to solve real-world heat transfer problems. It includes many advanced topics, such as Bessel functions, Laplace transforms, separation of variables, Duhamel's theorem, and complex combination, as well as high order explicit and implicit numerical integration algorithms. These analytical and numerical solution methods are applied to topics not considered in most textbooks. Examples are heat exchangers involving fluids with varying specific heats or phase changes; heat exchangers in which axial conduction is a concern; and regenerators. To improve readability, derivations of important results are presented completely, without skipping steps, which reduces student frustration and improves retention. The examples in the book are ubiquitous, not trivial “textbook” exercises. They are rather complex and timely real-world problems that are inherently interesting. This textbook integrates the computational software packages Maple, MATLAB, FEHT, and Engineering Equation Solver (EES) directly with the heat transfer material.

1150 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2008

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book on Heat Transfer. The theoretical development of each new topic is detailed with illustrations where helpful and mathematical rigor. Numerous completely worked-out examples, both analytical and numerical, will help the student through the often challenging end of chapter problems.

Much of this book is definitely at a graduate level. It is assumed that the reader knows math through PDEs. The numerical examples use EES and MATLAB, and include complete code.