Introduction to Thermal and Fluids Engineering

Deborah A. Kaminski is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles in technical journals, an invited article in the New York Times, a featured article in Science, with associated podcast, and an engineering textbook published by John Wiley & Sons. After receiving her B.S. degree in Physics, Deborah Kaminski spent 5 years at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. Her work focused on heat transfer in electrical machinery, including motors, transformers, batteries, and generators. She then returned to Rensselaer for doctoral research on computational fluid dynamics in free convection. After receiving her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, she joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Thermal and Fluids Engineering.Chapter 2. The First Law.Chapter 3. Thermal Resistances.Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics.Chapter 5. Thermodynamic Properties.Chapter 6. Appications of the Energy Equation to Open Systems.Chapter 7. Thermodynamic Cycles and the Second Law.Chapter 8. Refrigeration, Heat Pump, and Power Cycles.Chapter 9. Internal Flows.Chapter 10. External Flows.Chapter 11. Conduction Heat Transfer.Chapter 12. Convection Heat Transfer.Chapter 13. Heat Exchangers.Chapter 14. Radiation Heat Transfer.Chapter 15. Ideal Gas Mixtures and Combustion (Web).Appendix A: Tables in SI Units.Appendix B: Tables in British Units.Appendix C: Answers to Selected Problems.Index.