Convection Heat Transfer

Bejan (mechanical engineering, Duke U.) updates his material from the latest research and provides new examples and exercises in this third edition of his classic text. He examines the fundamental principles of convection heat transfer, laminar boundary layer and duct flow, and external and internal natural convection. He proceeds to turbulence, including transition to turbulence, turbulent boundary layer and duct flow, and free turbulent flows. In the final chapters he describes convection with change of phase, mass transfer, and convection in porous media. Appendices include constants and conversion factors, mathematical formulas, and properties of solids, liquids, and gases. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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This updated edition focuses on environmental concerns, and includes questions, design problems, and an introductory symbols list. It covers natural and forced convection, convection through porous media saturated with fluid, turbulent transport in free-stream flow, and the cooling of electronic packages by forced and natural convection. Discussion includes applications such as geophysical dynamics, construction, and geothermal and thermal insulation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ADRIAN BEJAN, PhD, is the J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. An internationally recognized authority on heat transfer and thermodynamics, Bejan has pioneered the methods of entropy generation minimization, scale analysis, heatlines and masslines, intersection of asymptotes, dendritic architectures, and constructal theory. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Max Jakob Memorial Award (ASME & AICHE), the Worcester Reed Warner Medal (ASME), and the Ralph Coats Roe Award (ASEE). He is the author of fifteen books and 400 journal articles, and is listed among the 100 most-cited engineering researchers (all disciplines, all countries). He has been awarded fourteen honorary doctorates by universities in ten foreign countries.