Editorial Review:
This text is intended for mechanical engineering majors taking a thermal design course. It combines practical coverage of thermal/fluid components and systems, with review coverage of prerequisite thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Extensive case studies and practical examples show students how the thermal design is done, and the techniques used to simulate and optimize such designs. This title takes a modern approach, giving students exposure to the general design process, use of software tools for design analysis & simulation, and experimental methods. Report writing, economic factors, and ethical considerations are also discussed in the context of engineering practice.
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Outrageous! 2004-07-25
This book is NOT good. Period. It does no justice whatsoever to the title that it bears. I feel so cheated that I bought this book and the price is even more outrageous ($148).For instance,nothing,and I mean nothing, is at all compelling, maybe I should say, interesting about its treatment of Simulation (among other topics)in Chapter 10. It is absolutely appalling. Why even mention Lagrange Interpolation,etc when you are not ready to divulge more information, even as it pertains to the design of Thermal Sytems?.I don't think that practicing engineers (according to the editorial review) will be interested in this sort of treatment of thermal systems. In the event that you are interested in the overall picture of thermal systems, I suggest that you take a look at the excellent exposition by W.F. Stocker in "Design of Thermal Systems". This one is targeted at the "higher" audience but is well worth the efforts spent in following it up.
I should ideally give this book a single star but for the rather excellent compendium of engineering ethics in Chapter 3.
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