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Welty and colleagues (engineering, Oregon State U.) update again their textbook on one area of the core engineering curriculum first published in 1969. In each edition they account for the increased computing power available to students, and the changing place of momentum, heat, and mass transfer in the curriculum and the profession. The fourth retains some examples and problems in English units, primarily in those subdisciplines that use them conventionally, but most have been converted to SI units.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
Provides a unified treatment of momentum transfer (fluid mechanics), heat transfer and mass transfer. The treatment of the three areas of transport phenomena is done sequentially. The subjects of momentum, heat, and mass transfer are introduced, in that order, and appropriate analysis tools are developed.
Book Info
Textbook containing contemporary subject matter relating to the fundamentals of heat, momentum and mass transfer. Includes homework problems and practice exercises that deal with current technologies, revised coverage of mass transfer, and extensive tables of physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases, among other features. Previous edition not cited. DLC: Fluid mechanics.
From the Back Cover
A TRUSTED CLASSIC, NOW UPDATED WITH MODERN APPLICATIONS For more than three decades, FUNDAMENTALS OF MOMENTUM, HEAT, AND MASS TRANSFER has set the standard in the field with its consistent, clearly written, unified approach to transfer processes. Building on the strengths of previous editions, the Fourth Edition of this classic text is updated with applications to contemporary technologies, such as materials processing, electronic chip cooling, biochemical engineering, and more. Readers will develop a sound understanding of transfer phenomena, build a set of valuable analysis skiss, and apply basic principles to a wide variety of modern problems and examples. Feature of the Fourth Edition - New! Contemporary subject matter.
- New! More homework exercises and example problems that deal with current technologies.
- New! Revised coverage pf mass transfer.
- Consistent approach to transport processes, highlighting similarities among different modes.
- Easy-to-understand descriptions of basic principles.
- A clear methodology for solving fundamentally based problems.
- Extensive table of physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
Rating 2.5
just tease me....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.
A Good BookThis is a easy entrance book for graduated students. Chemical Engineers will be safe with this. |
