Product Description: Presented in ten edited chapters this book encompasses important emerging topics in heat transfer equipment, particularly heat exchangers. The chapters have all been selected by invitation only. Advances in high temperature equipment and small scale devices continue to be important as the involved heat transfer and related phenomena are often complex in nature and different mechanisms like heat conduction, convection, turbulence, thermal radiation and phase change as well as chemical reactions may occur simultaneously...read more

Product Description: Presenting the basic mechanisms for transfer of heat, this book gives a deeper and more comprehensive view than existing titles on the subject. Derivation and presentation of analytical and empirical methods are provided for calculation of heat transfer rates and temperature fields as well as pressure drop...read more

Product Description: Gas turbine engines and systems are designed to convert the energy of a fuel into some form of useful power, such as mechanical shaft power, electrical power, or the high-speed thrust of a jet. Research and development designed to perfect efficient cooling in gas turbines require fundamental and applied investigations of heat transfer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years the computational analysis of convection heat transfer and related fluid flow phenomena have been characterised by a prodigious outpouring of new information. Numerically based solutions are now extremely common and are being applied to engineering problems of increasing complexity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Extended surfaces like fins are frequently employed in engineering applications to enhance the heat transfer performance. To improve the analysis of individual fins and fin assemblies, numerical methods may be a useful tool. This book presents recent advances in modeling the thermal phenomena in single fins, fin assemblies, analysis of transient operating conditions, fins in porous media, louvered fins in heat exchangers, etc...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Considerable development of numerical methods for computer modeling of flow and heat transfer phenomena has occurred during recent years. The handling of arbitrary geometries, various physical phenomena and turbulent flow haeve all developed to such an extent that reliable and accurate predictions can be achieved for many problems of engineering and industrial relevance...read more

Product Description: To achieve compactness, the surface geometries of heat exchangers must have high heat transfer surface area per unit volume. The flow passages then become narrow and the shape of the passages is often very complex. In addition, turbulators and surface modifications are used to enhance the heat transfer performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Heat transfer plays an important role in almost every field of engineering. Presented here is a unique collection of papers on experimental, theoretical and numerical investigations of fundamental and applied features in the fields of boiling, evaporation and two-phase flow, cooling of electronics, heat transport affected by electromagnetic fields, and thermal radiation...read more