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Heat Transfer Engineering

Fundamentals and Techniques

  • 1st Edition - November 21, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: C. Balaji, Balaji Srinivasan, Sateesh Gedupudi
  • Language: English

Heat Transfer Engineering: Fundamentals and Techniques reviews the core mechanisms of heat transfer and provides modern methods to solve practical problems encountered by working p… Read more

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Description

Heat Transfer Engineering: Fundamentals and Techniques reviews the core mechanisms of heat transfer and provides modern methods to solve practical problems encountered by working practitioners, with a particular focus on developing engagement and motivation. The book reviews fundamental concepts in conduction, forced convection, free convection, boiling, condensation, heat exchangers and mass transfer succinctly and without unnecessary exposition. Throughout, copious examples drawn from current industrial practice are examined with an emphasis on problem-solving for interest and insight rather than the procedural approaches often adopted in courses.

The book contains numerous important solved and unsolved problems, utilizing modern tools and computational sources wherever relevant. A subsection on common issues and recent advances is presented in each chapter, encouraging the reader to explore a greater diversity of problems.

Key features

  • Reveals physical solutions alongside their application in practical problems, with an aim of generating interest from reality rather than dry exposition
  • Reviews pertinent, contemporary computational tools, including emerging topics such as machine learning
  • Describes the complexity of modern heat transfer in an engaging and conversational style, greatly adding to the uniqueness and accessibility of the book

Readership

Senior undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, chemical and thermal engineering programs. Practicing engineers and early career researchers working with industrial aspects of heat and mass transfer (particularly in electronics, automobile, HVAC, aerospace, manufacturing industries

Table of contents

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Thermodynamics and heat transfer1.2 Heat transfer and its applications1.3 Modes of heat transfer1.4 Conduction1.5 Convection1.6 Thermal radiation1.7 Combined modes of heat transfer1.8 Phase-change heat transfer

1.9 Concept of continuum

2 CONDUCTION: FUNDAMENTALS, ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND STEADY STATE

2.1 Introduction2.2 Three-dimensional conduction equation2.3 Steady state, one-dimensional conduction in a few commonly encountered systems2.4 Electrical analogy and thermal resistance2.5 Heat transfer in cylindrical coordinates2.6 Steady state conduction in a spherical shell2.7 Composite wall, cylinder and sphere2.8 One-dimensional steady state heat conduction with heat generation2.9 Fin heat transfer2.10 Analysis of fin heat transfer

3 CONDUCTION: ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE3.1 Introduction3.2 Lumped capacitance method3.3 Semi-infinite approximation3.4 The method of separation of variables3.5 Analysis of two-dimensional, steady state systems

4 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVECTION4.1 Introduction4.2 Fundamentals of convective heat transfer4.3 The heat transfer coefficient4.4 Governing equations4.5 Summary

5 FORCED CONVECTION5.1 Introduction5.2 Approximation using order of magnitude analysis5.3 Non-dimensionalization of the governing equations5.4 Approximate solution to the boundary layerequations5.5 Turbulent flow5.6 Internal flows

6 NATURAL CONVECTION6.1 Introduction6.2 Natural convection over a flat plate6.3 Boundary layer equations and non-dimensional numbers6.4 Empirical correlations for natural convection

7 HEAT EXCHANGERS7.1 Introduction7.2 Classification of heat exchangers7.3 Heat exchanger analysis7.4 The LMTD method7.5 The effectiveness-NTU method

7.6 Comparison between the LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods7.7 Other considerations in the design of a heat exchanger

8 THERMAL RADIATION8.1 Introduction8.2 Concepts and definitions in radiation8.3 Black body and laws of black body radiation8.4 Properties of real surfaces8.5 Kirchhoff’s law8.6 Net radiative heat transfer from a surface8.7 Radiation heat transfer between surfaces8.8 Radiation view factor and its determination8.9The radiosity-irradiation method8.10 Introduction to gas radiation8.11Equation of transfer or radiative transfer equation (RTE)

9 NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER9.1 Introduction9.2 Equations and their classification9.3 Three broad approaches to numerical methods9.4 Steady conduction9.5 Unsteady conduction9.6 Introduction to methods for convection9.7 Practical considerations in engineering problems

10 MACHINE LEARNING11.1 Introduction11.2 The Machine Learning Paradigm11.3 Artificial Neural Networks11.4 Convolutional Neural Networks11.5 Applications 11.6 Future possibilities in heat transfer

11 BOILING AND CONDENSATION11.1 Introduction11.2 Boiling11.3 Pool boiling11.4 Flow boiling

11.5 Condensation

11.6 Film condensation on a vertical plate

11.7 Film condensation on horizontal tubes

11.8 Two-phase pressure drop

12 INTRODUCTION TO CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER12.1 Introduction12.2 Fick’s law of diffusion12.3 The convective mass transfer coefficient 12.4 The velocity, thermal, and concentration boundary layers

12.5 Analogy between momentum, heat transfer, and mass transfer

12.6 Convective mass transfer relations 12.7 A note on the convective heat and mass analogy

12.8 Simultaneous heat and mass transfer

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 25, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

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C. Balaji

Professor C. Balaji is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. Balaji brings over 25 years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of interest include heat transfer, optimization, computational radiation, atmospheric radiation, and inverse heat transfer. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s International Journal of Thermal Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras; Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s International Journal of Thermal Sciences, India

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Balaji Srinivasan

Dr. Balaji Srinivasan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. His areas of research interest include computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, turbulence, and applied machine learning.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

SG

Sateesh Gedupudi

Dr. Sateesh Gedupudi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. His current research interests focus on experimental investigation and modeling of flow boiling heat transfer and instabilities in mini/micro-channels, pool boiling heat transfer, heat exchangers, and heat transfer in buildings.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

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