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Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer

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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?

I use this book as an excellent complement to other two which I think best. I am referring to the classic B. S. L. (Transport Phenomena) and specially, Slattery (Advanced Transport Phenomena) which is far more rigorous. But this book has great problems and a help system for preparing Power Points of the lectures that is very good. It has the advantage of being a bit simpler than B. S. L. and, for an undergradate course, it can be very useful. Moreover, it is very didatic and easy to follow.

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.

There's been a lot of people asking about the solutions manual for this book. There isn't one that is published and made available to everyone, I found this website that might be valuable to you. Check out the website here:

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Good luck!

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.