Thermal Science : Essentials of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer

A practical, illustrated guide to thermal science

A practical, illustrated guide to thermal science Written by a subject-matter expert with many years of academic and industrial experience, Thermal Science provides detailed yet concise coverage of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The laws of thermodynamics are discussed with emphasis on their real-world applications.

This comprehensive resource clearly presents the flow-governing equations of fluid mechanics, including those of mass, linear momentum, and energy conservation. Flow behavior through turbomachinery components is also addressed. The three modes of heat transfer--conduction, convection, and radiation--are described along with practical applications of each.

Thermal Science covers:

• Properties of pure substances and ideal gases
• First and second laws of thermodynamics
• Energy conversion by cycles
• Power-absorbing cycles
• Gas power cycles
• Flow-governing equations
• External and internal flow structures
• Rotating machinery fluid mechanics
• Variable-geometry turbomachinery stages
• Prandtl-Meyer flow
• Internal flow, friction, and pressure drop
• Fanno flow process for a viscous flow field
• Rayleigh flow
• Heat conduction and convection
• Heat exchangers
• Transfer by radiation

Preface

Part I : Thermodynamics
Chapter 1 : Foreword
Chapter 2 : Definitions
Chapter 3 : Properties of Pure Substances
Chapter 4 : Properties of Ideal Gases
Chapter 6 : Energy Conversion By Cycles
Chapter 7 : Gas Power Cycles

Part II : Fluid Mechanics
Chapter 8 : Flow-Governing Equations
Chapter 9 : Sonic Speed in Ideal Gases
Chapter 10 : Introduction of the Critical MaChapter Number
Chapter 11 : Continuity in Terms of the Critical MaChapter Number
Chapter 12 : Isentropic Flow Through Varying-Area Passages
Chapter 13 : Rotating Machinery Fluid Mechanics
Chapter 14 : Velocity Diagrams
Chapter 15 : Cross-Flow Area Variation
Chapter 16 : Supersonic Stator Cascade
Chapter 17 : Normal Shocks
Chapter 18 : Fanno Flow Process for a Viscous Flow Field
Chapter 19 : Rayleigh Flow
Chapter 20 : Dynamic Similarity (Similitude) Theory
Chapter 21 : Radial Equilibrium Theory

Part III : Heat Transfer
Chapter 22 : Introduction
Chapter 23 : Heat Conduction
Chapter 24 : Heat Convection
Chapter 25 : Lumped Parameter Analysis
Chapter 26 : Heat Transfer By Radiation

Appendix A : Analysis
Appendix B : Charts and Tables
Index