About the Book : Engineering Heat Transfer by Narasipur Suryanarayana, Emeritus Professor, Michigan Technological University, emphasizes physics while retaining appropriate mathematical rigor. It is student-friendly (student-centric?) and students can follow the materials with very little guidance.
Features of the Text Book Engineering Heat Transfer by Narasipur Suryanarayana :
Unique Organization: With a two-chapter format of conduction, convection, and radiation chapters, the material follows a gradual progression from simple topics to complex problems.
- Includes topics such explanations of when a fin can be considered to be infinitely long, the one-term approximation of transient conduction problems, variation of convective heat transfer coefficient in internal flows, plate heat exchangers. The concept of overall heat transfer coefficient is introduced early in Chapter 2.
- Example problems are chosen to illustrate key features in each topic.
- An abundance of end-of-chapter problems including those requiring iterative solutions, and several open-ended design problems.
- Projects in several chapters to demonstrate modeling and choosing an appropriate solution.
- Conceptual solutions presenting the solution in words – a road-map of the solution – before commencing actual computations.
- Historical vignettes of people who have made major contributions in the field – Fourier, Reynolds, Prandtl, Planck and so on – are included.
- A publication quality solution manual for the end-of-chapter problems.
- Consistent methodology in the solution of example problems and chapter-end problems.
- Inclusion of integral method for the solution of conduction and convection problems
- Appendices: In addition to the required table of properties, they 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.
- Extracts from views on the book by some persons well known in the field of heat transfer
Students will be advised to keep this book, rather than selling it after taking the class, because it will be useful in practical situations.
..through good organization of the material, attractive layout, excellent figures, computer solutions, and historical vignettes.
There are hundreds of well-posed problems that solved in unusually neat fashion in the 600+ page solution manual.
If I were still teaching undergraduate classes (extending a thirty-five year career) and had control over the text, I would use this book. It has many features that I like to see in a heat transfer book.
Clark and Crossan Professor of Engineering (Emeritus)
Project type problems are provided in Chapters 2 through 8. These are very well done, and they show how to model physical situations that require the application of material found in the chapter.
What sets Engineering Heat Transfer apart is the organization, ...writing style, design problems, and especially the project problems. From the view point of the author, the book is a success. The author has succeeded in meeting his goals, and has written a very good textbook, one that this reviewer could use with relative ease.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Memphis , author of a text on heat Transfer
This book is one of the high quality texts in the field of heat transfer. The author has attempted to help students understand the subject of heat transfer and has succeeded in this task.
This book is probably the most detailed text in the field. It is almost 1000 pages in length and would be suitable for a sequence of courses, one at the undergraduate, and one at the graduate level.
Frank Kreith
If I have a problem to solve in heat transfer, I shall know where to turn! You have written a text which seems admirably directed to your students and serve as an excellent reference for practitioners.
Harold G. Elrod
Professor Emeritus
Columbia University
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 he ASME. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University
Table of Contents :
Each chapter begins with an introduction and ends with summary, references and problems
1. INTRODUCTION
Relationship between thermodynamics and heat transfer
Modes of heat transfer
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Surface heat transfer coefficient
Magnitudes of convective and radiative heat transfer
Relevance of Heat Transfer – steam
power plant, manufacturing
processes, solar heated house, the
human body
Terminology
2. CONDUCTION I
Fourier’s Law of Conduction
Generalized one-dimensional, transient conduction equation with area change and internal energy generation
One-dimensional conduction - constant area of cross-section,
variable area of cross section
Conduction with boundaries exposed to convective heat transfer
Thermal circuit
Contact resistance
Conduction shape factor
Heat transfer with augmentation – extended surfaces, fin effectiveness and efficiency, overall heat transfer coefficient with extended surfaces, some features of analysis of extended surfaces – corrected length, suitable length of fins, justification of one-dimensional analysis
Transient conduction – lumped analysis
Multidimensional transient problems – one-dimensional temperature distribution, application to multidimensional problems
Projects
3 CONDUCTION II
Internal energy generation
Variable thermal conductivity
Multidimensional conduction – numerical solutions
Transient conduction – development of Hiesler charts, numerical solutions
Integral method of solution
Projects
4 CONVECTION I
Introduction: Classification, heat transfer in laminar and turbulent flows, empirical correlations
Forced convection – external flows: flows parallel to a flat plate, flows over cylinders, spheres and other geometries
Forced convection – internal flows: circular and non-circular ducts, annulus of coaxial cylinders
Natural convection: vertical surfaces, vertical and inclined cylinders, inclined and horizontal surfaces, horizontal cylinders, spheres
Mixed convection
Projects 5 CONVECTION II Convection correlations (continued)-
flow over tube banks, jet impingement, natural convection in cavities, coaxial cylinders and spheres, thin wires, and closely spaced vertical plates
Forced convection with high speed flows
Reynolds analogy
Integral method of solutions-boundary layer equations
Projects
6 HEAT TRANSFER WITH CHANGE OF PHASE
Nucleate, film, pool and forced convection boiling
Film condensation on vertical surfaces, horizontal tubes, forced convection condensation in tubes
Projects
7 RADIATION I
Radiation phenomenon: blackbody radiation, surface properties
Radiosity and view factors, view factor algebra
Radiative heat transfer among gray, diffuse, and opaque surfaces, thermal circuit
Radiative heat transfer coefficient
Radiation intensity
Projects8 RADIATION II Spectral surface properties
View factors
Radiative heat transfer among gray,
diffuse, and opaque surfaces, thermal
circuit and algebraic methods
Radiation in an absorbing, emitting
medium
Energy exchange between an
enclosure and a gas
Projects9 HEAT EXCHANGERSSizing and rating
Types of heat exchangers
Overall heat transfer coefficient
Analysis of heat exchangers – NTU and LMTD methods
Regenerators
10 MIXED-MODE HEAT TRANSFER
Introduction
Examples
Solar collectors
11 CONDUCTION-DIFFERENTIAL FORMULATION
Differential equation for three-dimensional transient conduction with internal energy generation-Cartesian coordinates
Steady tw0-dimensional temperature distribution
Transient, one-dimensional temperature distribution
12 CONVECTION-DIFFERENTIAL FORMULATION
Mass balance
Momentum balance
Energy balance-first law of thermodynamics
Some exact solutions
Boundary layers
Appendices Appendix 1 : Table of Properties
Appendix 2 : Review of Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and Elements of calculus
Appendix 3 : Mathematical Functions and Tables
Appendix 4 : Orthogonal functions, Sturm-Liouville Equation
Appendix 5 : Laplace transforms
Appendix 6 : Equation of Motion and Energy
Appendix 7 : Dimensional analysis
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