• Penram International Publishing (India) Private Limited

Book: Engineering Heat Transfer

This book on Heat Transfer titled as "Engineering Heat Transfer" emphasises physics while retaining appropriate mathematical rigor, and is student-friendly so that students can follow the material with very little guidance. It has a unique organisation, with a two-chapter format for the chapters on conduction, convection, and radiation, so that the material progresses gradually from simple topics to complex problems. The concept of the overall heat transfer coefficient is introduced early in Chapter 2. Example problems have been chosen to illustrate the key features in each topic, and there are a large number of problems at the end of each chapter, including ones requiring iterative solutions. In addition there are several open-ended design problems and projects to demonstrate modelling and choice of an appropriate solution. There is consistent methodology in the solution of the example problems and problems at the end of each chapter. Historical vignettes of people who have made major contributions in the field, e.g., Fourier, Reynolds, Prandtl, Planck, are included. There are extensive appendices, which in addition to the required table of properties, include a review of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and elements of calculus as required to follow the material in the text, a detailed list of Laplace transforms, an explanation of orthogonal functions, and dimensional analysis. About the author: Dr N V Suryanarayana, Professor Emeritus, Michigan Technological University, worked for over 8 years in a shipbuilding yard in India before entering pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University (M.S.) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.). After 30 years on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University, he retired in 2000. He has published many papers, is the senior author of Design and Simulation of Thermal Systems. He is a Fellow of the ASME. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University.