Engineering thermodynamics

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.

The book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOME 2021).

The ADI Model Problem presents the theoretical foundations of Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) iteration for systems with both real and complex spectra and extends early work for real spectra into the complex plane with methods for computing optimum iteration parameters for both one and two variable problems.

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.

Phase-change Material based heat sinks and associated optimization remains a topic of great interest, as evident from the increasing number of citations and new applications and miniaturization.

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 book assesses the thermal feasibility of using materials with atomically thin layers such as graphene and the transition metal dichalcogenides family in electronics and optoelectronics applications.

This book serves as a self-contained reference source for engineers, materials scientists, and physicists with an interest in relaxation phenomena.

This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of magnetism and magnetic materials.

This book presents an interdisciplinary, applications oriented, approach to modern molecular models for fluids.

This book describes the importance of heat transfer in heat exchangers, and fluids properties play a vital role to increase heat transfer rate translating the size of the equipment and cuts in the capital and running cost in the long term.

The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis.

This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of nonrenewable resources.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of typical tasks from technical thermodynamics.

This book presents the select proceedings of the second International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering (RAME 2020).

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) operate at high temperatures allowing more fuel flexibility and also useful heat output and so increase total efficiency, but does give some interesting engineering challenges.

Conceived as a reference manual for practicing engineers, instrument designers, service technicians and engineering students.

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

Ruben Steinhoff hat ein thermodynamisches Auslegungsverfahren für einen Versuchsstand entwickelt, welches die Grundlage für dessen konstruktive Ausführung war.

An accessible yet rigorous discussion, featuring case studies and study problems to illustrate and reinforce key concepts.

This book contains a selection of the lectures presented at the Euromech Colloquium 255, held at the Liborianum, Paderborn, from 31 October to 2 November 1989.

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

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2019 (AeroMech 2019), held at the Universiti Sains Malaysia's School of Aerospace Engineering.

Compressible Flow with Application to Shocks and Propulsion is part of the series "e;Mathematics and Physics for Science and Technology"e;, which combines rigorous mathematics with general physical principles to model practical engineering systems with a detailed derivation and interpretation of results.

This book describes the latest research on producing functional particles using spray processes.

This book comprehensively explores various facets of the polishing field, spanning from traditional techniques to the latest advancements in ultra-precision polishing methods.

This textbook is intended for post-graduate students in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

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

This textbook presents the classical treatment of the problems of heat transfer in an exhaustive manner with due emphasis on understanding of the physics of the problems.

Combustion, the process of burning, is defined as a chemical reaction between a combustible reactant (the fuel) and an oxidizing agent (such as air) in order to produce heat and in most cases light while new chemical species (e.

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the most important phenomena in building physics: heat transfer, moisture/humidity, sound/acoustics and illumination.

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

This 2006 textbook discusses the fundamentals and applications of statistical thermodynamics for beginning graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

Nikolaos Karras behandelt die Senkung des Kühlenergiebedarfs batterieelektrischer Fahrzeuge als Beitrag zur Reichweitensteigerung.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences (ICITFES 2020).

This volume contains an archival record of the NATO Advanced Institute on Mini - Micro Fuel Cells - Fundamental and Applications held in Cesme - Izmir, Turkey, July 22-August 3, 2007.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICRAME 2020).

This book presents select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Mechanical Engineering Research (ICAMER 2019).

Illustrates Calculations Using Machine and Technological ProcessesThe conjugate heat transfer (CHT) problem addresses the thermal interaction between a body and fluid flowing over or through it.

This book describes the approach to engineering solutions through simplified modeling of important physical features and approximating their behavior.

This volume presents state-of-the-art of reviews in the field of multiphase flow.

This book introduces a unique 3D printing method that prints metal parts by ejecting metal micro-droplets: a low-cost, contactless, and environmentally friendly 3D printing technology.

In this book, the author focuses on the physics behind dew, breaths figures, and dropwise condensation phenomena to introduce scientists, engineers and students to the many original processes involved in condensation.

The book introduces modern atomistic techniques for predicting heat transfer in nanostructures, and discusses the applications of these techniques on three modern topics.

Thermal Engineering of Nuclear Power Stations: Balance-of-Plant Systems serves as a ready reference to better analyze common engineering challenges in the areas of turbine cycle analysis, thermodynamics, and heat transfer.