Description

Salient features of this edition:

• Two new chapters on Cooling of Electronic Equipments and Heat Pipes.
• Discussion on the effect of Solar Engergy Energy and Gases like CO on atmospheric warming.
• Summary and review questions added at the end of chapters.
• Additional examples in each chapter.
• Additional problems under advanced examples.
• Additional exercise problems in each chapter.
• About 500 short and objective questions at the end.

Contents

• An Overview of Heat Transfer
• Steady State Conduction
• Conduction with Heat Generation
• Heat Transfer with Extended Surfaces (FINS)
• Two Dimensional Steady Heat Conduction
• Transient Heat Conduction
• Introduction to Convection
• Convective Heat Transfer, Practical Correlations-Flow Over Surfaces
• Convective Heat Transfer, Practical Correlations-Internal Flow
• Natural Convection
• Phase Change Processes-Boiling, Condensation, Freezing and Melting
• Heat Exchangers
• Thermal Radiation
• Mass Transfer
• Cooling of Electronic Equipments
• Heat Pipes

Dr. C P Kothandaraman, former Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore had his education at the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai and Michigan State University, USA. He had been on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the PSG College of Technology from 1957 to 1992. He has considerable experience in teaching various subjects in the field of Thermal Engineering including Heat Transfer. He serves as a consultant to industries in the field of design of heat exchangers and air heaters. He has to his credit books in the field of Thermal Engineering, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics and Machinery which are updated periodically.