Heat Transfer Engineering: Fundamentals and Techniques

Heat Transfer Engineering: Fundamentals and Techniques reviews the core mechanisms of heat transfer and provides modern methods to solve practical problems encountered by working practitioners, with a particular focus on developing engagement and motivation. The book reviews fundamental concepts in conduction, forced convection, free convection, boiling, condensation, heat exchangers and mass transfer succinctly and without unnecessary exposition. Throughout, copious examples drawn from current industrial practice are examined with an emphasis on problem-solving for interest and insight rather than the procedural approaches often adopted in courses.

The book contains numerous important solved and unsolved problems, utilizing modern tools and computational sources wherever relevant. A subsection on common issues and recent advances is presented in each chapter, encouraging the reader to explore a greater diversity of problems.

Reveals physical solutions alongside their application in practical problems, with an aim of generating interest from reality rather than dry expositionReviews pertinent, contemporary computational tools, including emerging topics such as machine learningDescribes the complexity of modern heat transfer in an engaging and conversational style, greatly adding to the uniqueness and accessibility of the book

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Thermodynamics and heat transfer 1.2 Heat transfer and its applications 1.3 Modes of heat transfer 1.4 Conduction 1.5 Convection 1.6 Thermal radiation 1.7 Combined modes of heat transfer 1.8 Phase-change heat transfer

1.9 Concept of continuum

2 CONDUCTION: FUNDAMENTALS, ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND STEADY STATE

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Three-dimensional conduction equation 2.3 Steady state, one-dimensional conduction in a few commonly encountered systems 2.4 Electrical analogy and thermal resistance 2.5 Heat transfer in cylindrical coordinates 2.6 Steady state conduction in a spherical shell 2.7 Composite wall, cylinder and sphere 2.8 One-dimensional steady state heat conduction with heat generation 2.9 Fin heat transfer 2.10 Analysis of fin heat transfer

3 CONDUCTION: ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY STATE 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Lumped capacitance method 3.3 Semi-infinite approximation 3.4 The method of separation of variables 3.5 Analysis of two-dimensional, steady state systems

4 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVECTION 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Fundamentals of convective heat transfer 4.3 The heat transfer coefficient 4.4 Governing equations 4.5 Summary

5 FORCED CONVECTION 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Approximation using order of magnitude analysis 5.3 Non-dimensionalization of the governing equations 5.4 Approximate solution to the boundary layerequations 5.5 Turbulent flow 5.6 Internal flows

6 NATURAL CONVECTION 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Natural convection over a flat plate 6.3 Boundary layer equations and non-dimensional numbers 6.4 Empirical correlations for natural convection

7 HEAT EXCHANGERS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Classification of heat exchangers 7.3 Heat exchanger analysis 7.4 The LMTD method 7.5 The effectiveness-NTU method

7.6 Comparison between the LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods 7.7 Other considerations in the design of a heat exchanger

8 THERMAL RADIATION 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Concepts and definitions in radiation 8.3 Black body and laws of black body radiation 8.4 Properties of real surfaces 8.5 Kirchhoff’s law 8.6 Net radiative heat transfer from a surface 8.7 Radiation heat transfer between surfaces 8.8 Radiation view factor and its determination 8.9The radiosity-irradiation method 8.10 Introduction to gas radiation 8.11Equation of transfer or radiative transfer equation (RTE)

9 NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Equations and their classification 9.3 Three broad approaches to numerical methods 9.4 Steady conduction 9.5 Unsteady conduction 9.6 Introduction to methods for convection 9.7 Practical considerations in engineering problems

10 MACHINE LEARNING 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Machine Learning Paradigm 11.3 Artificial Neural Networks 11.4 Convolutional Neural Networks 11.5 Applications 11.6 Future possibilities in heat transfer

11 BOILING AND CONDENSATION 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Boiling 11.3 Pool boiling 11.4 Flow boiling

11.5 Condensation

11.6 Film condensation on a vertical plate

11.7 Film condensation on horizontal tubes

11.8 Two-phase pressure drop

12 INTRODUCTION TO CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Fick’s law of diffusion 12.3 The convective mass transfer coefficient 12.4 The velocity, thermal, and concentration boundary layers

12.5 Analogy between momentum, heat transfer, and mass transfer

12.6 Convective mass transfer relations 12.7 A note on the convective heat and mass analogy

12.8 Simultaneous heat and mass transfer