Preface
Fundamental Heat Transfer is a required course for all mechanical, chemical,
nuclear, and aerospace engineering undergraduate students. This senior-level
undergraduate course typically covers conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer. Advanced Heat Transfer courses are also required for most
engineering graduate students. These graduate-level courses are typically
taught as individual courses named Conduction, Convection, or Radiation.
Many universities also offer an Intermediate Heat Transfer or Advanced
Heat Transfer course to cover conduction, convection, and radiation for engineering graduate students. For these courses, however, there are not many
textbooks available that cover conduction, convection, and radiation at the
graduate level.
I have taught an Intermediate Heat Transfer course in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University since 1980. This book
has evolved from a series of my lecture notes for teaching a graduate-level
intermediate heat transfer course over the past 30 years. Many MS degree
students majoring in thermal and fluids have taken this course as their only
graduate-level heat transfer course. And many PhD degree candidates have
taken this course to prepare for their heat transfer qualifying examinations as
well as to prepare for their advanced-level courses in conduction, convection,
or radiation. This book bridges the gap between undergraduate-level basic
heat transfer and graduate-level advanced heat transfer as well as serves the
need of entry-level graduate students.
Analytical Heat Transfer focuses on how to analyze and solve the classic heat
transfer problems in conduction, convection, and radiation in one book. This
book emphasizes how to model and how to solve engineering heat transfer problems analytically, rather than simply applying the equations and
correlations for engineering problem calculations. This book provides many
well-known analytical methods and their solutions such as Bessel functions,
separation of variables, similarity method, integral method, and matrix inversion method for entry-level engineering graduate students. It is unique in that
it provides (1) detailed step-by-step mathematical formula derivations, (2)
analytical solution procedures, and (3) many demonstration examples. This
analytical knowledge will equip graduate students with the much-needed
capability to read and understand the heat-transfer-related research papers
in the open literature and give them a strong analytical background with
which to tackle and solve the complex engineering heat transfer problems
they will encounter in their professional lives.
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Fundamental Heat Transfer is a required course for all mechanical, chemical,
nuclear, and aerospace engineering undergraduate students. This senior-level
undergraduate course typically covers conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer. Advanced Heat Transfer courses are also required for most
engineering graduate students. These graduate-level courses are typically
taught as individual courses named Conduction, Convection, or Radiation.
Many universities also offer an Intermediate Heat Transfer or Advanced
Heat Transfer course to cover conduction, convection, and radiation for engineering graduate students. For these courses, however, there are not many
textbooks available that cover conduction, convection, and radiation at the
graduate level.
I have taught an Intermediate Heat Transfer course in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University since 1980. This book
has evolved from a series of my lecture notes for teaching a graduate-level
intermediate heat transfer course over the past 30 years. Many MS degree
students majoring in thermal and fluids have taken this course as their only
graduate-level heat transfer course. And many PhD degree candidates have
taken this course to prepare for their heat transfer qualifying examinations as
well as to prepare for their advanced-level courses in conduction, convection,
or radiation. This book bridges the gap between undergraduate-level basic
heat transfer and graduate-level advanced heat transfer as well as serves the
need of entry-level graduate students.
Analytical Heat Transfer focuses on how to analyze and solve the classic heat
transfer problems in conduction, convection, and radiation in one book. This
book emphasizes how to model and how to solve engineering heat transfer problems analytically, rather than simply applying the equations and
correlations for engineering problem calculations. This book provides many
well-known analytical methods and their solutions such as Bessel functions,
separation of variables, similarity method, integral method, and matrix inversion method for entry-level engineering graduate students. It is unique in that
it provides (1) detailed step-by-step mathematical formula derivations, (2)
analytical solution procedures, and (3) many demonstration examples. This
analytical knowledge will equip graduate students with the much-needed
capability to read and understand the heat-transfer-related research papers
in the open literature and give them a strong analytical background with
which to tackle and solve the complex engineering heat transfer problems
they will encounter in their professional lives.
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