Engineering thermodynamics

Presents the fundamentals of chemical engineering fluid mechanics with an emphasis on valid and practical approximations in modeling.

This book addresses several issues related to hydrate inhibition and monoethylene glycol (MEG) recovery units (MRUs) in offshore natural gas fields, from fundamentals to engineering aspects and from energy consumption assessment to advanced topics such as exergy analysis.

This book examines key issues in improving the efficiency of small and medium power boiler units by adding control systems for the fuel combustion process.

This collection covers first principle and applied studies of thermodynamics and rate-governed phenomena including reaction kinetics and meso-, macro-scale transport of mass, momentum, and energy throughout the sequence of processing operations.

During heat treatment in dairy production, the rapid formation of heat-induced fouling deposits on the plant surface leads to reduced efficiency of heat transfer.

This book presents various dynamic processes in non-uniform piezoceramic cylindrical and spherical bodies based on numerical methods.

The first two editions of Concise Chemical Thermodynamics proved to be a very popular introduction to a subject many undergraduate students perceive to be difficult due to the underlying mathematics.

Fractal and Trans-scale Nature of Entropy: Towards a Geometrization of Thermodynamics develops a new vision for entropy in thermodynamics by proposing a new method to geometrize.

This textbook describes the fundamentals of the phenomena of fluid dynamics in the context of engineering instances.

This book serves as an introduction to cryocooler technology and describes the principle applications of cryocoolers across a broad range of fields.

These lecture notes provide a fresh approach to investigating singularly perturbed systems using asymptotic and geometrical techniques.

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and theories in thermal physics and elementary statistical mechanics in a very simple, systematic and comprehensive way.

This Brief concerns the important problem of critical heat flux in flow boiling in microchannels.

Amidst tightening requirements for eliminating CFC's, HCFC's, halons, and HFC's from use in air conditioning and heat pumps, the search began for replacements that are environmentally benign, non-flammable, and similar to the banned refrigerants in system-level behavior.

This book addresses several issues related to hydrate inhibition and monoethylene glycol (MEG) recovery units (MRUs) in offshore natural gas fields, from fundamentals to engineering aspects and from energy consumption assessment to advanced topics such as exergy analysis.

This book presents select proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2023).

The structure of this text is simple and transparent, enabling the easy mapping of the text onto a one-semester course syllabus and the attendant study.

Handbook of Fluid Dynamics offers balanced coverage of the three traditional areas of fluid dynamics-theoretical, computational, and experimental-complete with valuable appendices presenting the mathematics of fluid dynamics, tables of dimensionless numbers, and tables of the properties of gases and vapors.

This Brief deals with externally finned tubes, their geometric parameters, Reynolds number, dimensionless variables, friction factor, plain plate fins on round tubes, the effect of fin spacing, correlations, pain individually finned tubes, circular fins with staggered tubes, low integral fin tubes, wavy fin, enhanced plate  fin geometries with round tubes, Offset Strip Fins, convex louver fins, louvered fin, perforated fin, mesh fin, vortex generator, enhanced circular fin geometries, spine or segmented fin, wire loop fin, flat extruded tubes with internal membranes, plate and fin automotive radiators, performance comparison, numerical simulation, advanced fin geometries, hydrophilic coatings, internally finned tubes and annuli, spirally fluted and  indented tube, advanced internal fin geometries, and finned annuli.

Equipping practicing engineers and students with the tools to independently assess and understand complex material on the topic, this text is an ideal precursor to advanced heat transfer courses.

Addresses behaviour of materials under extreme mechanical conditions and of failure in terms of non-linear continuum mechanics and instability theory.

This first of its kind text enables today's students to understand current and future energy challenges, to acquire skills for selecting and using materials and manufacturing processes in the design of energy systems, and to develop a cross-functional approach to materials, mechanics, electronics and processes of energy production.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieses Lehrbuch besticht durch sein didaktisches Konzept: Es werden nicht nur wichtige Größen, Begriffe und  Prozesse mit klaren Definitionen eingeführt und durch farbige Abbildungen verdeutlicht, sondern auch das Verständnis durch einen umfangreichen Fragen- und Diskussionsteil verstärkt.

This book marks the 60th birthday of Prof.

This book on computational techniques for thermal and fluid-dynamic problems arose from seminars given by the author at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

This book provides the reader with some thermochemistry notes.

This book discusses the recent advances in combustion strategies and engine technologies, with specific reference to the automotive sector.

Emphasizing basic mass and energy balance principles, Chemical and Energy Process Engineering prepares the next generation of process engineers through an exemplary survey of energy process engineering, basic thermodynamics, and the analysis of energy efficiency.

Dimensional Analysis and Physical Similarity are well understood subjects, and the general concepts of dynamical similarity are explained in this book.

This book presents the select proceedings of 21st ISME conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering.

This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses.

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 book presents recent research in the field of transport phenomena in porous materials, including heat and mass transfer, drying and adsorption.

"e;With the appearance and fast evolution of high performance materials, mechanical, chemical and process engineers cannot perform effectively without fluid processing knowledge.

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

This book is a collection of over 225 multiple choice type questions (MCQs) and more than 40 practice/exam questions with solutions.

Applications of Hybrid Nanofluids in Science and Engineering delves deep into the multifaceted realms in which these dynamic fluids are playing a pivotal role in various fields.

This new edition updated the material by expanding coverage of certain topics, adding new examples and problems, removing outdated material, and adding a computer disk, which will be included with each book.

This textbook covers essentials of traditional and modern fluid dynamics, i.

This book discusses the recent advances in combustion strategies and engine technologies, with specific reference to the automotive sector.

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.

Conversion of Coal-Fired Power Plant to Cogeneration and Combined-Cycle presents the methodology, calculation procedures and tools used to support enterprise planning for adapting power stations to cogeneration and combined-cycle forms.

This book presents a range of low-dimensional superlattice thermoelectric materials based on physical vapor deposition (PVD) methods and explores various material types, thicknesses, and processing conditions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature.