Principles Of Enhanced Heat Transfer

Control of high-performance heat exchange, also known as "second generation heat transfer technology" has become essential because the enhanced surfaces of the devices involved have special shapes that promote much higher rates of heat transfer beyond other surfaces. The commercial applications and implications are obvious, but the theory and practice of developing these devices are not. Webb (mechanical engineering emeritus, Pennsylvania State U.) and Kim (mechanical engineering, U. of Incheon, Korea) have updated this edition to include a CD-ROM with over 9,500 literature references, information on micro-thermal devices, and more theoretically-based equations. Their topics include the fundamentals of heat transfer, performance evaluation criteria for single-phase and two-phase flow, plate-and fin extended surfaces, externally finned tubes, insert devices and internally-finned tubes, integral roughness, fouling, pool boiling and thin film evaporation, vapor and its complications, condensation, electric fields, heat and mass transfer, additives for gases and liquids, and cooling heat transfer. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ralph L. Webb is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and has published over 275 papers in the general area of heat transfer enhancement and has eight U.S. patents on enhanced heat transfer surfaces. He has performed research on enhanced heat transfer in boiling, condensation, fouling, air-cooled heat exchangers, electronic equipment cooling, forced convection for gases and liquids, wetting coatings to promote drainage of thin liquid films, and frost formation.
Prof. Webb is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer and is an editor of Heat Transfer Engineering journal. He is a recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the UK Refrigeration Institute Hall-Thermotank Gold Medal, and the AIChE Donald Q. Kern award. He is also a Fellow of ASME and ASHRAE and a Life Member of ASME.

Nae-Hyun Kim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Incheon, Korea. He earned his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Webb. Since then, he has been closely working with air-conditioning and refrigeration industries, where enhanced heat transfer technology has been successfully employed. Prof. Kim has published more than 30 international journal and conference papers related to boiling, condensation, fouling, and forced convection of liquids and gases. He is a member of ASME and ASHRAE.