Engineering thermodynamics

One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book examines the behavior and processes involved in modern steel heat treatment applications.

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

Metal-dielectric interfaces are ubiquitous in modern electronics.

A comprehensive, stepwise introduction to the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media.

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of hydrogen transport through different carriers (i.

Revised to reflect recent developments in the field, Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys, Fourth Edition, continues to be the most authoritative and approachable resource on the subject.

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics.

This work provides an enormous contribution to the broad effort of modeling heat, mass and momentum transport in multi-physics problems with the development of new solution approaches.

The utilization of mathematical models to numerically describe the performance of internal combustion engines is of great significance in the development of new and improved engines.

This textbook provides a thorough presentation of the phenomena related to the transport of mass (with and without electric charge), momentum and energy.

This volume fills the need for a textbook presenting basic governing and constitutive equations, followed by several engineering problems on multiphase flow and transport that are not provided in current advanced texts, monographs, or handbooks.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems.

One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book focuses on process design, equipment, and testing used in steel heat treatment.

This book provides deep insight into the physical quantity known as chemical activity.

Successfully Estimate the Thermal and Mechanical Characteristics of Electronics SystemsA definitive guide for practitioners new to the field or requiring a refresher course, Practical Guide to the Packaging of Electronics: Thermal and Mechanical Design and Analysis, Third Edition provides an understanding of system failures and helps identify the areas where they can occur.

This book consists of review articles by experts on recent developments in mechanical engineering sciences.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME-2022).

A systematic control of mixture formation with modern high-pressure injection systems enables us to achieve considerable improvements of the combustion pr- ess in terms of reduced fuel consumption and engine-out raw emissions.

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.

In this book a detailed and systematic treatment of asymptotic methods in the theory of plates and shells is presented.

This textbook discusses the development and analysis of polygeneration systems to generate electricity, fresh water, hot air, cold air, and hot water from a source of energy.

This engaging and accessible book is designed as a quick and easy way to get up to speed on all things in space technology.

This second volume of the textbook Hydraulic and Thermal Machines focuses on thermal machines.

This Handbook provides researchers, faculty, design engineers in industrial R&D, and practicing engineers in the field concise treatments of advanced and more-recently established topics in thermal science and engineering, with an important emphasis on micro- and nanosystems, not covered in earlier references on applied thermal science, heat transfer or relevant aspects of mechanical/chemical engineering.

More than 40 million sold in the Schaum's Outline series!

This book presents material for a one semester course on Transport Phenomena for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and applied sciences.

The 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves in Gottingen, Germany was jointly organised by the German Aerospace Centre DLR and the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis ISL.

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

Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid 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 contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries.

Do you know why honey drips whereas ketchup refuses to budge in the bottle?

Most heat transfer texts include the same material: conduction, convection, and radiation.

This textbook comprehensively covers the fundamentals behind mathematical modeling of engineering problems to obtain the required solution.

This is a textbook on thermodynamics of materials for junior/senior undergraduate students and first-year graduate students as well as a reference book for researchers who would like to refresh their understanding of thermodynamics.

This book provides a detailed overview of the plasma fluidized bed.

This new proceedings discusses developments in air, gas and refrigeration compressors, vacuum pumps, and expanders.

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.

Traditionally, the study of internal combustion engines operation has focused on the steady-state performance.

"e;Reading the book, you can feel the long practical experience of the author.

The book deals with development of comprehensive computational models for simulating underground coal gasification (UCG).

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

This book is interdisciplinary in character and combines the knowledge of me- chanics and chemical engineering with the aim of presenting a more exhaustive analysis ofthe phenomena occurring in wet materials during drying.

A selection of surveys and original research papers in mathematical fluid mechanics arising from a 2010 workshop held in Warwick.