The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering

This handbook is not designed to compete with traditional handbooks of heat transfer that stress fundamental principles, analytical approaches to thermal problems, and elegant solutions of traditional problems in the thermal sciences. The goal of this handbook is to provide information on specific topics of current interest in a convenient form that is accessible to the average engineer in industry. The handbook contains in the first three chapters sufficient background information to refresh the reader's memory of the basic principles necessary to understand specific applications. The bulk of the book, however, is devoted to applications in thermal design and for technologies of current interest, as well as to computer solutions of heat transfer and thermal engineering problems. The applications treated in the book have been selected on the basis of their current relevance to the development of new products in diverse fields such as food processing, energy conservation, bioengineering, desalination, measurement techniques in fluid flow and heat transfer, and other specific topics. Each application section stands on its own, but reference is made to the basic introductory material as necessary. The introductory material is presented in such a manner that it can be referred to and used by several authors of application sections. For the convenience of the reader, each author has been requested to use the same nomenclature in order to help the reader in the transition from material in some of the basic chapters to the application chapters. But wherever necessary, authors have defined special symbols in their chapters.

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