Heat Transfer Calculations

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Packed with laws, formulas, calculations solutions, enhancement techniques and rules of thumb, this practical manual offers fast, accurate solutions to the heat transfer problems mechanical engineers face everyday.

Table of contents

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PREFACE
Part 1 - Introductory Calculations
Chapter 1: Multiphase Films and Phase Change
Chapter 2: Industrial Heat-Transfer Calculations
Part 2 - Steady-State Calculations
Chapter 3: Heat Transfer and Temperature Results for a Moving Sheet Situated in aMoving Fluid
Chapter 4: Solution for the Heat-Transfer Design of a Cooled Gas Turbine Airfoil
Chapter 5: Steady-State Heat-Transfer Sample Problem: Cooling Fin
Chapter 6: Cooling of a Fuel Cell
Chapter 7: Turbogenerator Rotor Cooling Calculation
Chapter 8: Heat Transfer through a Double Glazed Window
Part 3 - Transient and Cyclic Calculations
Chapter 9: On the Use of Green's Function to Solve for Temperatures in a Bi-Material Slab Exposed to a Periodic Heat Flux Applied to Corrosion Detection
Chapter 10: Lumped Capacitance Model of a Tube Heated by a Periodic Source with Application to a Pulsed Detonation Engine Tube
Chapter 11: Calculation of Decoking Intervals for Direct-Fired Gas and Liquid Cracking Heaters
Chapter 12: Transient Heat-Transfer Sample Problem: Tape Pack Cooling
Chapter 13: Calculation of the Transient Response of a Roof to Diurnal Heat Load Variations
Chapter 14: Transient Heating of a Painted Vehicle Body Panel in an Automobile Assembly Plant Paint Shop Oven
Chapter 15: Thermal System Transient Response
Chapter 16: Thermal Response of Laminates to Cyclic Heat Input from the Edge
Chapter 17: A Simple Calculation Procedure for Transient Heat and Mass Transfer with Phase Change: Moist Air Example
Chapter 18: A Calculation Procedure for First and Second Law Efficiency Optimization of Refrigeration Cycles
Chapter 19: Transient Analysis of a Low-Temperature, Low-Energy Carrier, LoTEC(c)
Chapter 20: Parameter Estimation of LoTEC(c)
Part 4 - Heat-Transfer Coefficient Determination
Chapter 21: Calculation of Convective Heat-Transfer Coefficient using the Semi-Infinite Solid Assumption
Chapter 22: Determination of Heat-Transfer Film Coefficients by the Wilson Analysis
Part 5 - Tubes, Pipes, and Ducts
Chapter 23: Calculation of Local Inside-Wall Convective Heat-Transfer Parameters from Measurements of the Local Outside-Wall Temperatures along an Electrically Heated Circular Tube
Chapter 24: Two-Phase Pressure Drop in Pipes
Chapter 25: Heat-Transfer Calculations for Predicting Solids Deposition in Pipeline Transportation of "Waxy" Crude Oils
Chapter 26: Heat Transfer in a Circular Duct
Part 6 - Heat Exchangers
Chapter 27: Air Cooling of a High-Voltage Power Supply Using a Compact Heat Exchanger
Chapter 28: Energy Recovery from an Industrial Clothes Dryer Using a Condensing Heat Exchanger
Chapter 29: Sizing of a Crossflow Compact Heat Exchanger
Chapter 30: Single-Phase Natural Circulation Loops: An Analysis Methodology with an Example (Numerical) Calculation for an Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger
Chapter 31: Evaluation of Condensation Heat Transfer in a Vertical Tube Heat Exchanger
Chapter 32: Heat Exchanger Design Using an Evolutionary Algorithm
Part 7 - Fluidized Beds
Chapter 33: Fluidized Bed Heat Transfer
Part 8 - Parameter and Boundary Estimation
Chapter 34: Estimation of Parameters in Models
Chapter 35: Upper Bounds of Heat Transfer from Boxes
Chapter 36: Estimating Freezing Time of Foods
Part 9 - Temperature Control
Chapter 37: Precision Temperature Control Using a Thermoelectric Module
Thermal Analysis and Design
Chapter 38: Thermal Analysis of a Large Telescope Mirror
Chapter 39: Thermal Design and Operation of a Portable PCM Cooler
Chapter 40: A First-Order Thermal Analysis of Balloon-Borne Air-Cooled Electronics
Chapter 41: Thermal Analysis of Convectively Cooled Heat Dissipating Components on Printed Circuit Boards
Chapter 42: Design of a Fusion Bonding Process for Fabricating Thermoplastic-Matrix Composites
Part 11 - Economic Optimization
Chapter 43: Economic Optimization of Heat-Transfer Systems
Chapter 44: Turkey Oven Design Problem
INDEX

Biographical note

Myer P. Kutz has been President of Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., a publishing and information services consulting firm, since 1990. He was vice president in charge of professional and sci-tech publishing at John Wiley & Sons for 5 years. He is a member of the board of the Online Computer Library Center and is a former chair of the publications committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master's from RPI. Mr. Kutz is the editor of Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering & Design and Handbook of Transportation Engineering, both from McGraw-Hill, and other books on engineering.

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ESSENTIAL HEAT-TRANSFER SOLUTIONS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
An on-the-spot source for heat-transfer calculations, this book is packed with step-by-step procedures, calculations, enhancement techniques, formulas, laws, and rules of thumb. This convenient reference gives you the tools to solve a broad section of problems dealing with subjects ranging from thermal industrial equipment to thermal properties of materials.

Written by an international team of authors, this book offers:
Systematic procedures for specific problems, such as those involving heat-exchanger design and air-conditioning systems heat load
Solutions to thousands of problems in all types of heat transfer—conduction, convection, radiant, boiling, and condensation
Methods for achieving the highest possible energy efficiency
Calculation procedures for thermal properties of materials and surfaces
Quick-find organization
Tabular data at your fingertips

THE COMPLETE HEAT-TRANSFER SOLUTIONS TOOLKIT
Basic heat-transfer concepts * Conduction heat transfer * Convection heat transfer * Radiation heat transfer * Boiling and condensation heat transfer * Heat-exchanger calculations * Heat transfer in furnaces * Techniques to enhance heat transfer * Thermophysical properties of fluids and gases * Thermal properties of solid materials * Thermal properties of surfaces