Thermal Design: Heat Sinks, Thermoelectrics, Heat Pipes, Compact Heat Exchangers, and Solar Cells
Document Type
Book
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Description
The proposed is written as a senior undergraduate or the first-year graduate textbook,covering modern thermal devices such as heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and coolers, heat pipes, and heat exchangers as design components in larger systems. These devices are becoming increasingly important and fundamental in thermal design across such diverse areas as microelectronic cooling, green or thermal energy conversion, and thermal control and management in space, etc. However, there is no textbook available covering this rangeof topics. The proposed book may be used as a capstone design course after the fundamental courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The underlying conceptsin this bookcover the,1) understanding of the physical mechanisms of the thermal devices with the essential formulas anddetailed derivations, and 2) designing the thermaldevices in conjunction with mathematical modeling, graphical optimization, and occasionally computational-fluid-dynamic (CFD) simulation.Important design examples are developed using the commercial software,Math CAD, which allows the students to easily reach the graphical solutions even with highly detailed processes. In other words, the design concept is embodied through the example problems. The graphical presentation generally provides designers or students with the rich and flexible solutions toward achieving the optimal design. A solutions manual will be provided.
Call number in WMU's library
TJ255.5 .L44 2010 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-0470496626
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Wiley
City
Hoboken, N.J.
Keywords
heat engineering, materials, heat-transfer media, thermodynamics, thermoelectric apparatus and appliances
Disciplines
Heat Transfer, Combustion
Recommended Citation
Lee, HoSung, "Thermal Design: Heat Sinks, Thermoelectrics, Heat Pipes, Compact Heat Exchangers, and Solar Cells" (2010). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 100.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/100