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If you want top grades and thorough understanding of heat transfer, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you 269 accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get 92 additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how you're doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutie, Schaum's Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide--and this guide will show you why!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79110 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780070502079
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Master heat transfer with Schaum's-the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-sovling skills, and achieve your personal best on exams!

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If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you:

• Brush up before tests
• Find answers fast
• Study quickly and more effectivley
• Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks

Schaum's Outlines give you the information teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format--without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Scahum's lets you study at your own pace and reminds you of all the important facts you need to remember--fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're pefect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.

Inside, you will find:

• 269 detailed problems with step-by-step solutions and 92 answered problems
• Expanded use of SI units and updated problems to emphasize recent engineering applications
• Clear explanations of the theory and applications of heat transfer

This powerful study tool is the best tutuor you can have!

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Customer Reviews

Needed More On Heat Exchangers
The book is very helpful for insight into how to handle various heat transfer geometries, such as flat plate, cylinders, sphere, etc. I found no glaring technical or typographical errors in the book. However, the section on heat exchangers could have been much better developed. Specifically, on the relationship of UA, mass flow rate, specific heat capacity, and the terminal differential temperature ratio. For those interested, I offer the following derivations:

For counterflow Hx's:
(T1-T2)/(T3-T4)=e^(UA*(M2Cp2-M1Cp1)/(M1Cp1*M2Cp2))

For parallel flow Hx's:
(T1-T4)/(T3-T2)=e^(UA*(M2Cp2+M1Cp1)/(M1Cp1*M2Cp2))

Where: T1 is the inlet temperature of the high temperature fluid, T2 is the exit temperature of the low temperature fluid, T3 is the exit temperature of the high temperature fluid, T4 is the inlet temperature of the low temperature fluid. UA is the product of the overall heat transfer coefficient and the heat transfer area, typically fixed in the heat exchanger design/construction. M1 and M2 are the mass flow rates of the the high temp (M1) and low temp (M2) fluids. Cp1 and Cp2 are the specific heat capacities of the high temperature and low temperature fluids, respectively. Of course, "e" is the base natural logarithm, 2.71828...

Although, the idealized case, these formulae, which I could not gleen from this outline, will help greatly in the evaluation of terminal temperatures for a given heat exchanger given the design attributes of U, A, Cp, mass flow rates and sink and source temperatures.

Not the perfect aid to better grades
This is not a book which correctly solves problems in a heat transfer course. Much less "fully" solving problems. My biggest letdown in this book is in the manner the authors solved some of the problems in the book. Specifically problems dealing with the Biot modulus for a carbon steel sphere. It incorrectly lists the formula to solve for this type of object. It also does not show how to solve for the Biot modulus using the graphs provided. This book also incorrectly lists a method to solve for the amount of time needed to cool a heated sphere. Studying these incorrect methods caused my exam to drop a letter grade. I do not recommend this book to anyone trying to grasp the concepts in a heat transfer course. I suggest to save your money for something else that may help.

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Heat Transfer
I found the Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Heat Transfer, 2nd Ed. a helpful addition to my small collection of radiation heat transfer references. It has a unique worked example of the direct conversion from an Oppenheim radiosity network (RC analogy) to a radiation exchange factor (script-F) network.

I cannot comment on the conduction or convection sections because I have not yet used them.