Heat transfer principles and applications / Charles H. Forsberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to heat transfer -- Heat conduction equation and boundary conditions -- Steady-state conduction -- Unsteady conduction -- Numerical methods (steady and unsteady) -- Forced convection -- Natural (free) convection -- Heat exchangers -- Radiation heat transfer -- Multimode heat transfer -- Mass transfer -- Special topics.

"Heat Transfer Principles and Applications is a welcome change from more encyclopedic volumes exploring heat transfer. This shorter text fully explains the fundamentals of heat transfer, including heat conduction, convection, radiation and heat exchangers. The fundamentals are then applied to a variety of engineering examples, including topics of special and current interest like solar collectors, cooling of electronic equipment, and energy conservation in buildings. The text covers both analytical and numerical solutions to heat transfer problems and makes considerable use of Excel and MATLAB in the solutions. Each chapter has several example problems and a large, but not overwhelming, number of end-of-chapter problems"-- Provided by publisher.