Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow

by Roland W. Lewis

Heat transfer is the area of engineering science which describes the energy transport between material bodies due to a difference in temperature. The three different modes of heat transport are conduction, convection and radiation. In most problems, these three modes exist simultaneously. However, the significance of these modes depends on the problems studied and often, insignificant modes are neglected. Very often books published on Computational Fluid Dynamics using the Finite Element Method give very little or no significance to thermal or heat transfer problems. From the research point of view, it is important to explain the handling of various types of heat transfer problems with different types of complex boundary conditions. Problems with slow fluid motion and heat transfer can be difficult problems to handle. Therefore, the complexity of combined fluid flow and heat transfer problems should not be underestimated and should be dealt with carefully. This In an era of parallel computing, computational efficiency and easy to handle codes play a major part. Bearing all these points in mind, the topics covered on combined flow and heat transfer in this book will be an asset for practising engineers and postgraduate students. Other topics of interest for the heat transfer community, such as heat exchangers and radiation heat transfer, are also included.

Genres: Science, Mathematics, Engineering

356 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Vinay Nandurdikar]

Not fully read. But whatever that was in our syllabus that only I went through.
The discrete method, Galerkin method is there with simple numerical (some basic ? steps are eliminated).
Along with the class note, I can say this book I referred.