Heat Transfer and Thermal Control (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Volume 78)

A tight, square and unmarked copy. Full cloth binding. 538pp. Jacket is good only, with chips and wear; offered now in a new mylar cover. The success of a flight into space rests on the success of the vehicle designer in maintaining a proper degree of thermal balance within the vehicle or thermal protection of the outer structure of the vehicle, as it encounters various remote and hostile environments. The volume is devoted to Radiation Heat Transfer, Conduction Heat Transfer, Heat Pipes, and Thermal Control. Deals mainly with the thermal processes occuring within the spacecraft that affect is temperature distrubution. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.