Heat Transfer Engineering

Heat Transfer Engineering

by C. Balaji, Balaji Srinivasan, Sateesh Gedupudi
Released November 2020
Publisher(s): Academic Press
ISBN: 9780128185049

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Book 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.

  • 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

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. Abstract
    2. 1.1. Thermodynamics and heat transfer
    3. 1.2. Heat transfer and its applications
    4. 1.3. Modes of heat transfer
    5. 1.4. Conduction
    6. 1.5. Convection
    7. 1.6. Thermal radiation
    8. 1.7. Combined modes of heat transfer
    9. 1.8. Phase-change heat transfer
    10. 1.9. Concept of continuum
  8. Chapter 2: One-dimensional, steady state heat conduction
    1. Abstract
    2. 2.1. Introduction
    3. 2.2. Three-dimensional conduction equation
    4. 2.3. Steady state, one-dimensional conduction in a few commonly encountered systems
    5. 2.4. Electrical analogy and thermal resistance
    6. 2.5. Heat transfer in cylindrical coordinates
    7. 2.6. Steady state conduction in a spherical shell
    8. 2.7. Steady state conduction in a composite wall, cylinder and sphere
    9. 2.8. One-dimensional, steady state heat conduction with heat generation
    10. 2.9. Fin heat transfer
    11. 2.10. Analysis of fin heat transfer
    12. Fin efficiency
  9. Chapter 3: Conduction: One-dimensional transient and two-dimensional steady state
    1. Abstract
    2. 3.1. Introduction
    3. 3.2. Lumped capacitance method
    4. 3.3. Semi-infinite approximation
    5. 3.4. The method of separation of variables
    6. 3.5. Analysis of two-dimensional, steady state systems
  10. Chapter 4: Fundamentals of convection
    1. Abstract
    2. 4.1. Introduction
    3. 4.2. Fundamentals of convective heat transfer
    4. 4.3. The heat transfer coefficient
    5. 4.4. Governing equations
    6. 4.5. Summary
  11. Chapter 5: Forced convection
    1. Abstract
    2. 5.1. Introduction
    3. 5.2. Approximation using order of magnitude analysis
    4. 5.3. Nondimensionalization of the governing equations
    5. 5.4. Approximate solution to the boundary layer equations
    6. 5.5. Turbulent flow
    7. 5.6. Internal flows
    8. Problems
  12. Chapter 6: Natural convection
    1. Abstract
    2. 6.1. Introduction
    3. 6.2. Natural convection over a flat plate
    4. 6.3. Boundary layer equations and nondimensional numbers
    5. 6.4. Empirical correlations for natural convection
  13. Chapter 7: Heat exchangers
    1. Abstract
    2. 7.1. Introduction
    3. 7.2. Classification of heat exchangers
    4. 7.3. Heat exchanger analysis
    5. 7.4. The LMTD method
    6. 7.5. The effectiveness-NTU method
    7. 7.6. Comparison between the LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods
    8. 7.7. Other considerations in the design of a heat exchanger
  14. Chapter 8: Thermal radiation
    1. Abstract
    2. 8.1. Introduction
    3. 8.2. Concepts and definitions in radiation
    4. 8.3. Black body and laws of black body radiation
    5. 8.4. Properties of real surfaces
    6. 8.5. Kirchoff’s law
    7. 8.6. Net radiative heat transfer from a surface
    8. 8.7. Radiation heat transfer between surfaces
    9. 8.8. Radiation view factor and its determination
    10. 8.9. The radiosity-irradiation method
    11. 8.10. Introduction to gas radiation
    12. 8.11. Equation of transfer or radiative transfer equation (RTE)
  15. Chapter 9: Numerical heat transfer
    1. Abstract
    2. 9.1. Introduction
    3. 9.2. Three broad approaches to numerical methods
    4. 9.3. Equations and their classification
    5. 9.4. Basics of the finite difference method
    6. 9.5. Steady conduction
    7. 9.6. Unsteady conduction
    8. 9.7. Introduction to methods for convection
    9. 9.8. Practical considerations in engineering problems
  16. Chapter 10: Machine learning in heat transfer
    1. Abstract
    2. 10.1. Introduction
    3. 10.2. Physics versus data methods
    4. 10.3. Neural networks for heat transfer
    5. 10.4. Practical considerations in engineering problems
    6. 10.5. Applications in heat transfer
    7. 10.6. Summary
  17. Chapter 11: Boiling and condensation
    1. Abstract
    2. 11.1. Introduction
    3. 11.2. Boiling
    4. 11.3. Pool boiling
    5. 11.4. Flow boiling
    6. 11.5. Condensation
    7. 11.6. Film condensation on a vertical plate
    8. 11.7. Condensation on horizontal tubes
    9. 11.8. Two-phase pressure drop
  18. Chapter 12: Introduction to convective mass transfer
    1. Abstract
    2. 12.1. Introduction
    3. 12.2. Fick’s law of diffusion
    4. 12.3. The convective mass transfer coefficient
    5. 12.4. The velocity, thermal, and concentration boundary layers
    6. 12.5. Analogy between momentum, heat transfer, and mass transfer
    7. 12.6. Convective mass transfer relations
    8. 12.7. A note on the convective heat and mass analogy
    9. 12.8. Simultaneous heat and mass transfer
  19. Index

Product information

  • Title: Heat Transfer Engineering
  • Author(s): C. Balaji, Balaji Srinivasan, Sateesh Gedupudi
  • Release date: November 2020
  • Publisher(s): Academic Press
  • ISBN: 9780128185049