Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

Heat transfer, a sub-discipline of thermal engineering, focuses on the generation, conversion, utilization, and exchange of thermal energy between physical systems. The primary mechanisms governing heat transfer include conduction, convection, advection, and radiation. These processes play a critical role in enabling phase transitions within thermodynamic systems, facilitating changes between states of matter. Heat transfer finds extensive applications in areas such as insulation, thermal management of electronic systems, and materials processing. Conversely, mass transfer involves the net movement of mass from one location to another, driven by processes such as precipitation, absorption, evaporation, and distillation. It is integral to fields like separations engineering, reaction engineering, and thermal engineering. This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of heat and mass transfer. It unfolds the innovative aspects of the discipline which will be crucial for the holistic understanding of the subject matter. In this book, constant effort has been made to make the understanding of the difficult concepts of as easy and informative as possible, for the readers.