Thermal Design, 2nd Edition

Preface to the First Edition

This book is written as a senior undergraduate or first‐year graduate textbook, covering modern thermal devices such as heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and coolers, heat pipes, compact heat exchangers, and solar cells as design components. These devices are becoming increasingly important and fundamental in thermal design for diverse areas such as microelectronic cooling, green or thermal energy conversion, thermal control and management in space, and so on. However, there is no such textbook available with these topics, which is the rationale for this book to be written. This book may be used as a capstone design course after students have finished the fundamental courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The concept of this book is to give the student, first, understanding of the physical mechanisms of the devices with detailed derivations; and second, practice in designing the devices with use of mathematical modeling, graphical optimization, and occasionally computational‐fluid‐dynamic (CFD) simulation. This is done through pertinent design examples developed using the commercial software MathCAD. In other words, the design concept is embodied through the sample problems. The graphical presentation generally provides designers or students with rich and flexible solutions giving the optimal design.

This book is unique as a textbook of thermal design with the present topics and design methodology. This book has ...