Synopsis
A senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level textbook employing examples from diverse areas such as manufacturing, energy systems, cooling of electronic equipment, refrigeration, environmental problems, engines, and heat transfer equipment. Discusses the conceptual design and formulation of the design problem; development of a suitable model; numerical modeling and simulation; economic factors in design; the formulation of the optimization problems; applicable optimization methods; and recent trends, such as knowledge- based design methodology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
About the Author
Yogesh Jaluria, M.S., Ph.D., is the Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He has contributed to more than 450 technical articles and received numerous honors, including the Kern Award from AIChE, the Max Jakob Memorial Award from ASME and AIChE, and the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, Freeman Scholar Award, Worcester Reed Warner Medal, and Heat Transfer Memorial Award, all from ASME. Dr. Jaluria is a Fellow of ASME, and has served as the chair of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME, and as the editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
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