PC-Aided Numerical Heat Transfer and Convective Flow [Hardcover]

Akira Nakayama (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849376564 | ISBN-13: 978-0849376566 | Publication Date: April 7, 1995 | Edition: Har/Dskt

PC-Aided Numerical Heat Transfer and Convective Flow is intended as a graduate course textbook for Mechanical and Chemical Engineering students as well as a reference book for practitioners interested in analytical and numerical treatments in the subject. The book is written so that the reader can use the enclosed diskette, with the aid of a personal computer, to systematically learn both analytical and numerical approaches associated with fluid flow and heat transfer without resorting to complex mathematical treatments.

This is the first book that not only describes solution methodologies but also provides complete programs ranging from SOLODE to SAINTS for integration of Navier-Stokes equation.

The book covers boundary layer flows to fully elliptic flows, laminar flows to turbulent flows, and free convection to forced convection. The student will learn about convection in porous media, a new field of rapid growth in contemporary heat transfer research. A basic knowledge of fluid mechanics and heat transfer is assumed. It is also assumed that the student knows the basics of Fortran and has access to a personal computer.The material can be presented in a one-semester course or with selective coverage in a seminar.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; Har/Dskt edition (April 7, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849376564
• ISBN-13: 978-0849376566
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,854,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, May 18, 2000

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Pop Ioan (Cluj, Romania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PC-Aided Numerical Heat Transfer and Convective Flow (Hardcover)

Heat transfer is employed în a wide range of applications including electronic cooling, heat recovery and energy conservation, manufacturing process, temperature control and many other applications în modern industries. Whilst there have been many new developments în the field, the basic technology remains essentially the same with the stimulus for change being the desire to meet the demands of new applications. Many problems relating to fluid flow and heat transfer în networks involve the use of complex computational procedures, and they are, in general difficult to model due to the randomness of the processes and sometimes the presence of fluid transients and instabilities.

In recent years Numerical Heat Transfer is an area which has generated much interest among researchers and thermal designers . The technical development in computer industries has created an increased impact on all the disciplines în heat transfer, including heat conduction, forced convection, natural convection, boiling, condensation, etc. Therefore, the book by Professor Nakayama is a record of the technical progress in the application of computational methods to some problems of fluid flow and heat transfer. The book covers boundary-layer flows to full elliptic flows, laminar flows to turbulent flows, and free convection to forced convection. A substantial part of the book (73 pages) describes problems of convective flows în porous media, which has been a topic of extensive research and development over the past 35 years. I believe that it was timely, in 1995, that Professor Nakayama presented an extensive survey on the subject of the application of numerical codes using personal computers (PC) to several heat transfer problems. Further specific emphasis in the book was placed on the application of a novel and very efficient integral solution methodology proposed by Professor Nakayama and his co-workers în 1994 to some non-similar boundary-layer problems. This method is a more general technique, in the sense that it not only yields the results identical to those from the classical Karman-Pohlhausen method for the case of Newtonian fluids, but it was also extended by Professor Nakayama and his associates to non-Newtonian power-law fluids and convective flows in porous media. Some contributions in the book are of direct relevance to the development of computer programmes, while others describe some of the available codes which have been furnished for the students to conduct numerical experiments of their own using a PC. These programes are both flexible and efficient, and have potential use în technology. The careful reader can readily see how to modify these programes for his own advantage.

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELENTE LIBRO DE CONSULTA EN FLUJO DE FLUIDOS COMPUT., April 23, 1999

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This review is from: PC-Aided Numerical Heat Transfer and Convective Flow (Hardcover)

EL LIBRO COMPRENDE EL DESARROLLO COMPUTACIONAL DE LOS PROBLEMAS DE DIFUSION-CONVECCION, COMO ELEMENTO DE APOYO PARA COMPRENDER EL USO Y DESARROLO DEL PROGRAMA SAINTS. COMO PROGRAMA EN DIFERNCIAS FINITAS DE TIPO GENERAL PARA LA SOLUCION DE LAS ECUACIONES DE NAVIER-STONE ES EXELENTE

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Program difficult to understand. Theory complicated., August 22, 1998

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Nektarios Koumantakis (GREECE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PC-Aided Numerical Heat Transfer and Convective Flow (Hardcover)

The theory is discribed with difficult mathematical analysis. Other books gives results and not just mathematical formulas. Also, there are no appendixes or pictures at all. The analysis is a zero and you have to know exactly and extensively the heat convection theory to read this book. In other words, buy this book if you are going to study heat transfer extensively (university project, being a proffesor etc.). I am studying Mechanical Engineering, I did read many books about heat convection and the way that this book is written isn't the appropriate. Finally, the program is not one but ten small programs. Written in Fortran, the least that the author could do is to give a small compiler. Who can find a Fortran compiler these days? Who knows Fortran well enough to change the program list to describe the program he/she studies ? Furthermore, this book is expensive for what it offers and it doesn't contain any book resources. I think that Mr. Nakayama (I had read other books of him and found them good) has to think over the writing of this book again. After all, it is written in 1995.