Packed with laws, formulas, calculations solutions, enhancement techniques and rules of thumb, Heat-Transfer Calculations is a practical manual which offers fast, accurate solutions to the heat transfer problems mechanical engineers face everyday.

Contents

Introductory Calculations

1. Multiphase Films and Phase Change
2. Industrial Heat-Transfer Calculations

Steady-State Calculations

3. Heat Transfer and Temperature Results for a Moving Sheet Situated in a Moving Fluid
4. Solution for the Heat-Transfer Design of a Cooled Gas Turbine Airfoil
5. Steady-State Heat-Transfer Sample Problem: Cooling Fin
6. Cooling of a Fuel Cell
7. Turbogenerator Rotor Cooling Calculation
8. Heat Transfer through a Double Glazed Window

Transient and Cyclic Calculations

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
10. Lumped Capacitance Model of a Tube Heated by a Periodic Source with Application to a Pulsed Detonation Engine Tube
11. Calculation of Decoking Intervals for Direct-Fired Gas and Liquid Cracking Heaters
12. Transient Heat-Transfer Sample Problem: Tape Pack Cooling
13. Calculation of the Transient Response of a Roof to Diurnal Heat Load Variations
14. Transient Heating of a Painted Vehicle Body Panel in an Automobile Assembly Plant Paint Shop Oven
15. Thermal System Transient Response
16. Thermal Response of Laminates to Cyclic Heat Input from the Edge
17. A Simple Calculation Procedure for Transient Heat and Mass Transfer with Phase Change: Moist Air Example
18. A Calculation Procedure for First and Second Law Efficiency Optimization of Refrigeration Cycles
19. Transient Analysis of a Low-Temperature, Low-Energy Carrier, LoTEC(c)
20. Parameter Estimation of LoTEC(c)

Heat-Transfer Coefficient Determination

21. Calculation of Convective Heat-Transfer Coefficient using the Semi-Infinite Solid Assumption
22. Determination of Heat-Transfer Film Coefficients by the Wilson Analysis

Tubes, Pipes, and Ducts

23. Calculation of Local Inside-Wall Convective Heat-Transfer Parameters from Measurements of the Local Outside-Wall Temperatures along an Electrically Heated Circular Tube
24. Two-Phase Pressure Drop in Pipes
25. Heat-Transfer Calculations for Predicting Solids Deposition in Pipeline Transportation of "Waxy" Crude Oils
26. Heat Transfer in a Circular Duct

Heat Exchangers

27. Air Cooling of a High-Voltage Power Supply Using a Compact Heat Exchanger
28. Energy Recovery from an Industrial Clothes Dryer Using a Condensing Heat Exchanger
29. Sizing of a Crossflow Compact Heat Exchanger
30. Single-Phase Natural Circulation Loops: An Analysis Methodology with an Example (Numerical) Calculation for an Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger
31. Evaluation of Condensation Heat Transfer in a Vertical Tube Heat Exchanger
32. Heat Exchanger Design Using an Evolutionary Algorithm

Fluidized Beds

33. Fluidized Bed Heat Transfer

Parameter and Boundary Estimation

34. Estimation of Parameters in Models
35. Upper Bounds of Heat Transfer from Boxes
36. Estimating Freezing Time of Foods

Temperature Control

37. Precision Temperature Control Using a Thermoelectric Module Thermal Analysis and Design
38. Thermal Analysis of a Large Telescope Mirror
39. Thermal Design and Operation of a Portable PCM Cooler
40. A First-Order Thermal Analysis of Balloon-Borne Air-Cooled Electronics
41. Thermal Analysis of Convectively Cooled Heat Dissipating Components on Printed Circuit Boards
42. Design of a Fusion Bonding Process for Fabricating Thermoplastic-Matrix Composites

Economic Optimization

43. Economic Optimization of Heat-Transfer Systems
44. Turkey Oven Design Problem

Index

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