Designed to give readers the hands-on skills needed to develop their own customized software for simulating and designing thermal systems, this book is useful for anyone interested in obtaining advanced knowledge of thermal system analysis and design.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Mathematical Background
3. Review of Fundamentals
4. Modelling of Thermal Equipment
5. System Simulation
6. System Simulation Case Studies
7. Introduction to Optimum Design
8. Optimization Techniques
9. Case Studies in Optimum Design
10. Dynamic Response of Thermal Systems
11. Additional Considerations in Thermal System Design
Authors
P.L. Dhar Former Professor, IIT Delhi, India. P L Dhar taught in the mechanical engineering department of IIT Delhi for over thirty six years. His research focused on Thermal System Simulation and Design, spanning a wide range from refrigeration to thermal power plant systems. Based on this work, he developed a post graduate course with the same title and taught it for over two decades. Besides this, he also taught thermodynamics, refrigeration and air-conditioning, heat and mass transfer to undergraduate and post graduate students. Sridhar Thyageswaran Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India.Sridhar Thyageswaran developed and taught several graduate-level courses in thermal sciences for mechanical engineering students at Coimbatore Institute of Technology in India, for nearly twenty-one years. His specialization and interests lie in the areas of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics. He graduated with honours from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and later received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Armour College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology. He has authored several single-author technical papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Prior to serving in academia, he worked as a Principal Engineer with Parametric Technology R&D (India) for seven years, in areas related to computer-aided design. His roles there involved the development of complex mathematical software algorithms for the creation of spline curves and spline surfaces used in geometric modelling.
