Engineering thermodynamics

This textbook presents the classical topics of conduction heat transfer and extends the coverage to include chapters on perturbation methods, heat transfer in living tissue, numerical solutions using MATLAB(R), and microscale conduction.

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

Presents views on current developments in heat and mass transfer research related to the modern development of heat exchangers.

This work describes the technology necessary to optimize the performance of any refractory lining.

This book develops the theory of chemical thermodynamics from first principles, demonstrates its relevance across scientific and engineering disciplines, and shows how thermodynamics can be used as a practical tool for understanding natural phenomena and developing and improving technologies and products.

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

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

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

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 discusses enhancing the overall energy performance of building central air-conditioning systems through fault diagnosis and robust control strategies.

This unique book is at the nexus of modern software programming practices and electrochemical process engineering.

Upon an exponential growth of life on earth, supported by a century of oil- based energy economy, following a century of its coal-based phase, the world we live in is facing a point of inflection!

The concept of sustainable development was first introduced by the Brundtland Commission almost 20 years ago and has received increased attention during the past decade.

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.

This book presents the latest information on the intelligent CNC machine tool spindle system, which integrates various disciplines such as mechanical engineering, control engineering, computer science and information technology.

This book outlines the data-driven modelling of building energy performance to support retrofit decision-making.

This book intends to summarize the current situation at home and abroad about the treatment and consumption of various metallurgical wastes and domestic waste fertilizers and their products through metallurgical processes.

It is estimated that windows in office buildings are responsible for one third of energy used for their heating and cooling.

This book deals with mathematical modeling, namely, it describes the mathematical model of heat transfer in a silicon cathode of small (nano) dimensions with the possibility of partial melting taken into account.

This book focuses on droplets and sprays relevant to combustion and propulsion applications.

The contents of this book has been the subject of a lecture course, which the first author has held regularly for engineering students at the Technical University of Karlsruhe beginning in 1987.

This is a book about thermodynamics, not history, but it adopts a semi-historical approach in order to highlight different approaches to entropy.

This comprehensive textbook highlights features of two phase flows and introduces the readers to flow patterns and flow maps.

This book presents the state of the art of asymptotic and related mathematical methods, and how to apply them, as the means of choice, to representative building blocks of interfacial-flow phenomena.

Das Fachbuch behandelt die Grundlagen, die Konstruktion und das Betriebsverhalten von Dampfturbinen in aktueller Form.

Industry relies heavily on the combustion process.

Developed by the late metallurgy professor and master experimentalist Hubert I.

Based on newinformation obtained on free microjets, this book explains the latest phenomenain flame evolution in the presence of a transverse acoustic field with roundand plane propane microjet combustion.

It all started with a trip to Red River.

This practical guide provides comprehensive information on PIV.

Essentials of Radiation Heat Transfer focuses only on the essential topics required to gain an understanding of radiation heat transfer to enable the reader to master more challenging problems.

Die Technische Thermodynamik gehört zur Basis der Ingenieurwissenschaften.

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 is the physical chemistry textbook for students with an affinity for computers!

Internal combustion engines still have a potential for substantial improvements, particularly with regard to fuel efficiency and environmental compatibility.

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

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

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 focuses on solar-energy-based renewable energy systems and discusses the generation of electric power using solar photovoltaics, as well as some new techniques, such as solar towers, for both residential and commercial needs.

This authoritative reference presents a comprehensive review of the evolution of plasma science and technology fundamentals over the past five decades.

Models for the mechanical behavior of porous media introduced more than 50 years ago are still relied upon today, but more recent work shows that, in some cases, they may violate the laws of thermodynamics.

This monograph comprehensively describes phenomena of heat flow during phase change as well as the dynamics of liquid solidification, i.

Written by eminent researchers in the field, this text describes the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity starting from liquid helium and a charged Bose-gas.

This new volume of the annual review "e;Advances in Transport Phenomena"e; series contains three in-depth review articles on the microfluidic fabrication of vesicles, the dielectrophoresis field-flow fractionation for continuous-flow separation of particles and cells in microfluidic devices, and the thermodynamic analysis and optimization of heat exchangers, respectively.