Engineering thermodynamics

This book highlights the aspects that need to be considered when designing distillation columns in practice.

This book presents and facilitates new research and development results with hot topics in the thermoelectric generators (TEGs) field.

The book covers various topics of heat transfer.

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

The book covers the classical areas of technical thermodynamics: The first part deals with the basic equations for energy conversion and idealized fluids.

This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.

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.

This book presents and discusses the construction of mathematical models that describe phenomena of flow and transport in porous media as encountered in civil and environmental engineering, petroleum and agricultural engineering, as well as chemical and geothermal engineering.

This book provides a review of the latest advances in anion exchange membrane fuel cells.

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.

This book addresses nearly all aspects of the state of the art in LES & DNS of turbulent flows, ranging from flows in biological systems and the environment to external aerodynamics, domestic and centralized energy production, combustion, propulsion as well as applications of industrial interest.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in infrared thermography (IRT) applications with a focus on moisture assessment in buildings.

This engineering guide provides a methodology to define and quantify the fire development andensuing conditions within the room of fire origin from the fire's incipient stage through its fulldevelopment.

This book describes an effective method for modeling advanced materials like polymers, composite materials and biomaterials, which are, as a rule, inhomogeneous.

This book concerns the most up-to-date advances in computational transport phenomena (CTP), an emerging tool for the design of gas-solid processes such as fluidized bed systems.

This textbook provides a general overview of porous media flow, and introduces various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow.

This textbook presents numerical solution techniques for incompressible turbulent flows that occur in a variety of scientific and engineering settings including aerodynamics of ground-based vehicles and low-speed aircraft, fluid flows in energy systems, atmospheric flows, and biological flows.

This book compiles a variety of experimental data on blast waves.

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.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Jaya"e; algorithm, an advanced optimization technique that can be applied to many physical and engineering systems.

One of the main reasons for continuing interest in shock focusing is its ability to concentrate energy in a small volume and produce extreme temperatures and pressures in fluids in a controlled laboratory environment.

This new edition describes pressure and temperature sensitive paints (PSP and TSP) in global surface pressure and temperature measurements in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.

This book discusses heat transfer in underground energy systems.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

This book describes in great detail the semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys.

This book provides the reader with some thermochemistry notes.

The book provides the theoretical fundamentals on turbulence and a complete overview of turbulence models, from the simplest to the most advanced ones including Direct and Large Eddy Simulation.

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.

The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and electric lighting of buildings, sound transmission in building structures and protection against noise, the occurrence and spread of fires in buildings and the thermal response of cities.

This book presents step-by-step description of the use of Lie group analysis to find symmetry forms and similarity solutions for single- and two-phase laminar and turbulent flows of nanofluids.

This book explains the design and fabrication of any electronic enclosure that contains a printed circuit board, from original design through materials selection, building and testing, and ongoing design improvement.

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

This book aims at providing a computational framework of radiative heat transfer in participating media.

This book covers theoretical and experimental findings at the interface between fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy technologies.

This updated edition of a widely admired text provides a user-friendly introduction to the field that requires only routine mathematics.

This book focuses on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques and the recent developments and research works in thermo-mechanics applications.

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

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the thermal issues in photovoltaics.

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 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 book presents a collection of recent contributions in the field of transport phenomena in multiphase systems, namely, heat and mass transfer.

This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, emphasizing design, simulation, and manufacturing.

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

This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries.

This book provides a first course on deep learning in computational mechanics.

This thesis offers new insights into the fluid flow behavior of automotive centrifugal compressors operating under near-stall conditions.