Design and optimization of thermal systems

Yogesh Jaluria9780849337536, 0849337534

Thermal systems play an increasingly symbiotic role alongside mechanical systems in varied applications spanning materials processing, energy conversion, pollution, aerospace, and automobiles. Responding to the need for a flexible, yet systematic approach to designing thermal systems across such diverse fields, Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Second Edition provides hands-on guidance needed to solve practical and progressively complex design problems.
This bookoffers a thorough examination of basic concepts and procedures for conceptual design, formulation, modeling, simulation, feasible design, and optimization. The chapters encompass traditional as well as emerging techniques, featuring timely and compelling examples to demonstrate the range of potential problems and available solutions that readers may apply to their own needs.
Maintaining its emphasis on mathematical modeling and simulation techniques, this revised edition offers extended coverage on manufacturability, material selection, and sensitivity. It includes new material on genetic and gradient search methods and highlights significant trends such as knowledge-based design methodology. This edition also updates and enhances its coverage of important economic, safety, security, and environmental aspects and considerations.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 14
Preface to the First Edition……Page 22
Preface to the Second Edition……Page 26
The Author……Page 28
1 Introduction……Page 30
2 Basic Considerations in Design……Page 76
3 Modeling of Thermal Systems……Page 154
4 Numerical Modeling and Simulation……Page 236
5 Acceptable Design of a Thermal System: A Synthesis of Different Design Steps……Page 328
6 Economic Considerations……Page 412
7 Problem Formulation for Optimization……Page 458
8 Lagrange Multipliers……Page 502
9 Search Methods……Page 540
10 Geometric, Linear, and Dynamic Programming and Other Methods for Optimization……Page 588
11 Knowledge-Based Design and Additional Considerations……Page 628
Appendix A Computer Programs……Page 668
Appendix B Material Properties……Page 688
Appendix C Interest Tables……Page 708
Appendix D Heat Transfer Correlations……Page 716
Index……Page 726