Thermodynamics and heat

Industrial and Process Furnaces: Principles, Design and Operation, Third Edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage on all aspects of furnace operation and design, including topics essential for process engineers and operators to better understand furnaces.

Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer across Nanometer Vacuum Gaps provides an in-depth description of fundamentals and application of near-field radiative heat transfer.

The Classical Stefan Problem: Basic Concepts, Modelling and Analysis with Quasi-Analytical Solutions and Methods, New Edition, provides fundamental theory, concepts, modelling and analysis of the physical, mathematical, thermodynamical and metallurgical properties of classical Stefan and Stefan-like problems as applied to heat transfer problems involving phase-changes, such as from liquid to solid.

This book provides a sound foundation for understanding abstract concepts of phase and reaction equilibria (e.

Theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of transport phenomena in heat and mass transfer are reported in depth in this volume.

Compact Heat Exchangers: Selection, Design, and Operation, Second Edition, is fully revised to present the most recent and fundamental ideas and industrial concepts in compact heat exchanger technology.

Phase change material (PCM)-based composite heat sinks have attracted great interest in recent decades, especially in the context of thermal management of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants, and notebooks.

This book covers concepts and the latest developments on microscale flow and heat transfer phenomena involving a gas.

This book investigates a wide range of phase equilibrium modelling and calculation problems for compositional thermal simulation.

This book presents methodologies for analysing large data sets produced by the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence and combustion.

This book presents different thermodynamic approaches in the area of constitutive theory: thermodynamics of irreversible processes, rational thermodynamics, and extended thermodynamics.

This SpringerBrief presents a recent advancement in modeling and measurement of the effect of surface wettability on the defrost process.

This book is the second edition of Numerical methods for diffusion phenomena in building physics: a practical introduction originally published by PUCPRESS (2016).

This Brief stands as a primer for heat transfer fundamentals in heat transfer enhancement devices, the definition of heat transfer area, passive and active enhancement techniques and their potential and benefits and commercial applications.

This Brief concerns heat transfer and pressure drop in heat transfer enhancement for boiling and condensation.

This Brief deals with Performance Evaluation Criteria (PEC) for heat exchangers, single phase flow, objective function and constraints, algebraic formulation, constant flow rate, fixed flow area, thermal resistance, heat exchanger effectiveness, relations for St and f, finned tube banks, variations of PEC, reduced exchanger flow rate, exergy based PEC, PEC for two-phase heat exchangers, work consuming, work producing and heat actuated systems.

This book provides in-depth information about the sea ice in the Arctic at scales from paleoenvironmental variability to more contemporary changes during the past and present centuries.

Experts of fluid dynamics agree that turbulence is nonlinear and nonlocal.

This Brief describes heat transfer and pressure drop in heat transfer enhancement by insert devices and integral roughness.

This book deals with an important topic in rational continuum physics, thermodynamics.

This Brief deals with heat transfer and friction in plate and fin extended heat transfer enhancement surfaces.

Features twenty-five chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA.

This book discusses the merging of nanoscale electronics and electrochemistry and how this can potentially modernize the way electronic devices are currently engineered or constructed.

This book includes innovative gas-geothermometers and geobarometers, which are urgently needed to estimate the increasingly higher temperatures and pressures present at depth below the Solfatara volcano, owing to its on-going unrest.

This introduction to classical mechanics and thermodynamics provides an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals.

This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of analytical solutions to problems in the area of non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation processes.

This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations.

This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization.

Absolute concepts of time and energy are integral to standard thermal physics, but background independent systems are devoid of them.

This book presents new methods of numerical modelling of tube heat exchangers, which can be used to perform design and operation calculations of exchangers characterized by a complex flow system.

The second edition of this book includes the most up-to-date details on the advantages of Nuclear Air-Brayton Power Plant Cycles for advanced reactors.

This textbook introduces the molecular side of physical chemistry.

This book explores diffusion in L12 and B2 structures of Ni3Al, Ni3Ge, Ni3Ga and NiAl, NiGe and NiGa and discusses Fe- and Co-based alloys in detail.

In this book, Samohyl and Pekar offer a consistent and general non-equilibrium thermodynamic description for a model of chemically reacting mixtures.

This thesis demonstrates the potential of two platforms to explore experimentally the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics that has remained mostly theoretical so far.

The importance of thermodynamics, particularly its Second Principle, to all branches of science in which systems with very large numbers of particles are involved cannot be overstated.

This textbook explores the working principles of all kinds of turbomachines.

Concise, detailed, and transparently structured, this upper-level undergraduate textbook is an excellent resource for a one-semester course on thermodynamics for students majoring in physics, chemistry, or materials science.

This book provides the first comprehensive description of time crystals which have a repeating structure in time.

The book describes the thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and working principle of the Ranque Hilsch Vortex Tube.

This concise textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to thermodynamics, one of the core components of undergraduate physics courses.

This book presents the results of scientific research performed over the past two decades by the authors.

This book represents a journey through the history of science in regards to the concept of time, specifically, the question as to whether it is absolute, relative, or irreversible.

This textbook offers an introduction to multiple, interdependent transport phenomena as they occur in various fields of physics and technology like transport of momentum, heat, and matter.

This book continues the process of systematization of knowledge about convection.

This book focuses on mixed crystals formed by molecular substances.

This book addresses the concept and applications of Finite Time Thermodynamics to various thermal energy conversion systems including heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

This volume introduces the fundamentals of adsorption heat pumps, beginning with the simplest cycle and building to the most complex.

This is the first book dedicated to solar gas turbines, providing fundamental knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

This Brief describes and analyzes flow and heat transport over a liquid-saturated porous bed.