Table of Contents

1. Introduction and preliminaries; 2. Energy equation; 3. Conduction; 4. Radiation; 5. Convection: unbounded fluid streams; 6. Convection: semi-bounded fluid streams; 7. Convection: bounded fluid streams; 8. Heat transfer in thermal systems.

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This is a modern, example-driven introductory textbook on heat transfer, with modern applications, written by a renowned scholar.

About the Author

Massoud Kaviany is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics at the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the winner of ASME's Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2006) and the prestigious James Harry Potter Gold Medal (2010). He has won the Teaching Incentive Award (1999 and 2000) and the Education Excellence Award (2003) from the College of Engineering at Michigan. He is the author of four books: Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media, 2nd Edition (1999), Principles of Convective Heat Transfer, 2nd Edition (2001), Principles of Heat Transfer (2001) and Heat Transfer Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2008).