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Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, 3rd Edition

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I have carefully studied this text over a two-semester series in transport phenomena and I am amazed at the severity of typographical errors. For example, eqn 27-15 on pg 502 is missing a crucial 1/n term in the infinite sum. Equation 30-20 on pg 582 is completely misplaced-- it should be on the next page. Virtually every page you turn to has at least one typo, sometimes up to ten. It is criminal to sell a book for upwards of $150 without extensive proofreading. Next time hire an editor (I'm available for a reasonable pay).

I didn't really like the portions on heat and momentum transfer, because I think there are other more specialised books dealing with those areas, and the applications problems weren't that great.

The mass transfer portion was my favourite. I really appreciated the straightforward, fun and exiciting applications the authors incorporated into the text. It is a very good introduction to mass transfer. Hand-waving aside, I guess there has to be a balance somewhere, so for most people, it is good enough, as it is for me.

Overall 4-star grading, but only because of the good mass transfer portion.

I had a great experience with this seller. Fast shipment, good price, I'd do it again!

This book is the same book we study in our ChemE classes at Tech and some of the BME classes.

Have I written enough, yet?

The book was in great shape, its like brand new. There wasnt any writting in the book which was a plus. The book was delivered on time.

Great book, good format, good pictures but not too busy. Does a good job of explaining clearly and giving good examples and practice problems.

Buen libro para Transferencia de Calor , se divide en 3 bloques .
1.- Dinamica de fluidos
2.- transferencia de calor
3.- transferencia de masa

Este libro esta enfocado a la parte de Ingenieria Mecanica .

Compre el libro usado y llego en perfectas condiciones .

Book is more illustrated and has more examples than other engineering texts i've used. However it needs more examples and needs to explain things in a step by step fashion. It assumes you already know everything.

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Some chapters were very useful and infomative. However I was dissapointed with most of the fluid mechanics. I would have liked more information about setting up the relevant equations. These chapters are very short and do not provide sufficient information.

this book is a teaser....
it tells you of all the great stuff that can be known about the subject and then with a magical bit of hand waving, skips over the important (and more interesting) details....
This is perfectly ok for the "engineer" who believes in "let the mathematicians derive the equations; engineers just apply".

If I were to comment on the frequency of hand waving, I'd say a suitable metaphor would be the typical WLAN transmission frequency..... (~2.4GHz if I'm not mistaken)

alright... i may be giving the wrong impression of this book.

It does give derivations in sufficient detail, i think, to the satisfaction of most people.
(Things it gives vague hints of, but does not explicitly explain, are interesting things like the decomposition of work done through stresses to normal-shear or the alternative "spherical"-deviatoric components.)

I guess my dissatisfaction is mainly with the "teasing" where hand waving would have been necessary in order not to add another 100 pages.

But I'm still rather dissatisfied. This is an expensive book, even when discounted.... and the hand waving treads into certain areas which should not be neglected: Stress tensor not well developed, or rather not developed; the strain (rate) tensor doesn't fare too well either.

But it's a good enough undergradate text. At least good enough for a mechanical engineer.