Thermal science and engineering /
D. S. Kumar.
- Fourth edition.
- 763 pages : 25 cm.
Includes index.
Basic concepts & definitions -- Temperature and zeroth law thermodynamics -- Transient energies: work and heat -- Ideal gases and their basic laws -- First law of thermodynamics -- Steady flow energy equation (flow processes and 1st law) -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Entropy -- Availability and irreversibility -- Mixture of gases -- Thermodynamic relations -- Gas power cycle -- Internal combustion engines -- Steam and its properties -- Thermodynamic vapour cycles Refrigeration systems and psychrometry -- Fuels and combustion -- Thermodynamics of fluid flow (one-dimensional).