Thermodynamics

This comprehensive text gives engineers the concepts, tools and experience needed to solve practical energy problems using modern computing tools.

Sanford Klein (Author), Gregory Nellis (Author)

9780521195706, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 October 2011

1100 pages, 612 b/w illus. 72 tables 289 exercises
26.1 x 18.5 x 4.5 cm, 1.86 kg

'The main text is supplemented by numerous figures and EES screenshots. Both the text and the figures are held in black and white with blue as a supplementary colour which helps in making both more accessible. The text is clearly written and the lines thought are easy to follow. The quality of the paper and the print are excellent and the handling of the book is easy despite its volume. It deserves a recommendation for students of engineering but also for physicists who are interested in technical realizations of physical concepts.' Manuel Vogel, Contemporary Physics

This book differs from other thermodynamics texts in its objective, which is to provide engineers with the concepts, tools, and experience needed to solve practical real-world energy problems. The presentation integrates computer tools (such as EES) with thermodynamic concepts to allow engineering students and practising engineers to solve problems they would otherwise not be able to solve. The use of examples, solved and explained in detail, and supported with property diagrams that are drawn to scale, is ubiquitous in this textbook. The examples are not trivial, drill problems, but rather complex and timely real-world problems that are of interest by themselves. As with the presentation, the solutions to these examples are complete and do not skip steps. Similarly the book includes numerous end-of-chapter problems, both typeset and online. Most of these problems are more detailed than those found in other thermodynamics textbooks. The supplements include complete solutions to all exercises, software downloads, and additional content on selected topics. These are available on the book's website www.cambridge.org/KleinandNellis.

1. Basic concepts
2. Thermodynamic properties
3. Energy and energy transport
4. General application of the first law
5. The second law of thermodynamics
6. Entropy
7. Exergy
8. Power cycles
9. Refrigeration and heat pump cycles
10. Property relations for pure fluids
11. Mixtures and multi-component phase equilibrium
12. Psychometrics
13. Combustion
14. Chemical equilibrium
15. Statistical thermodynamics
16. Compressible flow.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF]