Heat transfer : evolution, design and performance / Adrian Bejan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Unidirectional steady conduction -- Multidirectional steady conduction -- Time-dependent conduction -- External forced convection -- Internal forced convection -- Natural convection -- Convection with change of phase -- Heat exchangers -- Radiation.

"Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy and heat between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes. Engineers also consider the transfer of mass of differing chemical species, either cold or hot, to achieve heat transfer. While these mechanisms have distinct characteristics, they often occur simultaneously in the same system. Heat transfer has broad application to the functioning of numerous devices and systems. Heat-transfer principles may be used to preserve, increase, or decrease temperature in a wide variety of circumstances. Heat transfer methods are used in numerous disciplines, such as automotive engineering, thermal management of electronic devices and systems, climate control, insulation, materials processing, and power station engineering"-- Provided by publisher.