Heat Transfer [Hardcover]

Jack Holman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0072406550 | ISBN-13: 978-0072406559 | Edition: 9

As one of the most popular heat transfer texts, Jack Holman's HEAT TRANSFER is noted for its clarity, accessible approach, and inclusion of many examples and problem sets. The new Ninth Edition retains the straight-forward, to-the-point writing style while covering both analytical and empirical approaches to the subject. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on physical understanding while, at the same time, relying on meaningful experimental data in those situations that do not permit a simple analytical solution. New examples and templates provide students with updated resources for computer-numerical solutions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 9 edition (October 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072406550
• ISBN-13: 978-0072406559
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #80 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Dynamics > Thermodynamics

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Good and the Bad, February 26, 2005

By 

Dendon's Mom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Transfer (Hardcover)

The Good:

- A nice amout of examples.

- Whatever is explained is explained pretty well.

- Friendly style of writing.

The Bad:

- No solution manual.

- Some mistakes in the solved examples.

The Worst:

- There is no focus on the heat transfer sceince itself - the equations are "dumped" on you with no explanations/development or even some example experiments that were made to get to the equations. The focus is on application of the equations to engineering problems and methods of solving differential equations.

The bottom line:

This book will not give you an understanding of the heat transfer science, but the ability to solve heat transfer problems. If that's what you look for - this is your book. Otherwise, look for something else.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the serious engineer, February 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Heat Transfer (Hardcover)

Holman's book is very good. Despite the minimal errors, his approach is very technical and well constructed. There is extensive coverage of mathematical derivations which make it very versatile for the comprehensive engineering analysis. I recommend it for beginning Heat Transfer students or as a handy reference.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good but bad., October 15, 2009

By 

Mr Andresan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Transfer (Hardcover)

I have used this book in University in my Mechanical Engineering Bachelors degree and unfortunately combined with a poor lecturer this book did not provide any favours. I bought Schaums Outlines "Heat Transfer" to compliment this text, and the two combined achieved the end result.

10 Years later I am now using this book again, and I am still finding errors in the text, poor worked real life examples and explanation of the values (I would be crucified if I didn't show previous calculation of some values, but Holman manages to get away with it). This text is not really work friendly, as the examples given are quite clunky, and are reasonably basic. Don't buy it thinking it will be easy to use. The problems in the back of the chapters aren't worked, which contribute to the frustration in the use of the main text and adaptation to more complex problems. A nice feature is the references at the end of the chapter, allowing you to put this text down and search for a specific text book for your requirements.