Books in the Series in Thermal & Fluid Physics & Engineering series

Peter Hills brings more than 25 years of experience in a variety of thermal applications. The book provides a practical insight into the design, operations, specification, and purchasing of heat transfer equipment. The engineer is led through logical understanding of all processes involved and taught to distinguish the practical applications from the computer codes.

This is a practical book containing 35 detailed case studies that serve to illustrate concepts, relate different topics and introduce applications. Thermal designers of shell-and-tube heat exchangers (STHE) will find the book indispensable for understanding the mechanics of thermal-hydraulics in STHEs and thereby for utilizing commercially available software packages to produce optimum designs.

Examines a range of hot cases for interface tracking methods. The cases range from single individual bubble behaviour to more complex cases such as cavitation. The cases will be of enormous help to all specialists using advanced computational methods to classify and validate multiphase flows.

The thermal design of air-cooled heat exchangers is a fascinating activity - sometimes even more so than that of shell-and-tube heat exchangers - for the simple reason that there are more variables: even the coolant (air) flow rate is a variable. This book will inspire the reader to consider the thermal design of air-cooled heat exchangers as a joyous activity rather than a mundane chore.