Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer Author: Frank P. Incropera David P. DeWitt Theodore L. Bergman Adrienne S. Lavine | Language: English | ISBN:
0470917857 | Format: EPUB
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer Description
This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.
Introduction to Heat and Mass Transfer is the gold standard of heat transfer pedagogy for more than 30 years, with a commitment to continuous improvement by four authors having more than 150 years of combined experience in heat transfer education, research and practice. Using a rigorous and systematic problem-solving methodology pioneered by this text, it is abundantly filled with examples and problems that reveal the richness and beauty of the discipline. This edition maintains its foundation in the four central learning objectives for students and also makes heat and mass transfer more approachable with an additional emphasis on the fundamental concepts, as well as highlighting the relevance of those ideas with exciting applications to the most critical issues of today and the coming decades: energy and the environment. An updated version of Interactive Heat Transfer (IHT) software makes it even easier to efficiently and accurately solve problems.
- Loose Leaf: 1080 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 7th Edition Binder Ready Version edition (May 16, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470917857
- ISBN-13: 978-0470917855
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The factors that influenced this review the most were the following: Explanation of concepts; link between concepts and examples; link between examples and assigned problems; and the provided tables, charts, etc.
The actual rating I gave this text is 4.5/5.0, but I couldn't give half of a star.
1. Explanation of concepts: (9/10)
The authors not only know what they are talking about in the text, they are able to bring it down to a college student's level. Because Heat Transfer is difficult to understand, the authors take a lot of time explaining the why as well as the what and how. Along with the material from my Heat Transfer course, the text was amazingly helpful for filling in gaps in understanding for practically every topic.
2. Link between concepts and examples: (9/10)
The examples provided were most of the time extremely useful for seeing the concepts in action with respect to the equations and correlations. Occasionally, however, the examples were used to reveal the nature of a specific phenomenon, not necessarily to help with problems. Overall, the examples were a great demonstration of the concepts.
3. Link between examples and assigned problems: (7/10)
The problems assigned were generally extremely difficult and some were not even possible to understand without the aid of the answers or the solutions from the instructor. When looking at the examples, it was frustrating seeing how the questions asked in the examples were not as challenging as the problems. In a sense, the book showed us how to walk and then expected us to run. If you have a solutions manual of some sort, then the problems will be much more useful to learn from.
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