Thermal Engineering

Preface

It gives us immense pleasure to present the book on Thermal Engineering. This book is intended for undergraduate students of mechanical, chemical or process, power, aerospace and automobile engineering. The content covers the syllabi of all the subjects pertaining to thermal engineering such as applied thermodynamics, power plant engineering, energy conversion and management, internal combustion engines, turbomachinery, gas turbines and jet propulsion, and refrigeration and air-conditioning taught at different levels of engineering curriculum.

From the vast experience of teaching, we feel that the students are lacking in fundamental concepts of different aspects of thermal engineering. The basic objective of an introductory course of ...