The Dynamics of Heat: Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

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The Dynamics of Heat:  Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Introduction

A Unified Approach to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

    This book is as much about how people understand thermal and other physical processes as it is about thermodynamics itself. Since the approach chosen here to describe and model thermal phenomena probes the roots of imagination and understanding, a few words about human conceptualizations of natural processes might be in place. This should allow me to set the stage for a theory of the Dynamics of Heat. 

    The Dynamics of Heat continues to be a text that can help students of the applied sciences, engineering, and medicine to take the steps from the simplest beginnings in thermal and chemical physics all the way to more demanding and formal treatments of modern continuum thermodynamics. Students of physics can find an introduction to the foundations of a dynamical theory of macroscopic thermal phenomena that will complement modern treatments of statistical physics.

Basic Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction. From Metaphors to Models of Heat 1

PART I. Processes, Energy, and Dynamical Models

1 Storage and Flow of Fluids and Electricity 17

2 Energy in Physical Processes 51

3 Transport and Balance of Momentum 73

PART II. Thermal and Chemical Processes

4 Storage, Flow, and Production of Heat 99

5 The Response of Simple Materials to Heat 189

6 Transformation and Transport of Substances 249

7 The Transport of Heat 331

8 Flow Systems and Convective Transports 381

9 Minimization of Entropy Production 427

PART III. A Dynamical Theory of Heat

10 Thermodynamics of Spatially Uniform Systems 457

11 Thermodynamics of Continuous Systems 475

12 Thermodynamics and Radiative Transfer 509

PART IV. Special Processes and Systems

13 Conduction and Coupled Transports 535

14 Convective Heat Transfer 567

15 Phase Change, Mixtures, and Engines 603

16 Solar Radiation 651

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