Thermofluids from nature to engineering /
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Textbook Cover Photo
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1 Thermofluids
- 1.1 What is Thermofluids?
- 1.1.1 Thermodynamics
- 1.1.2 Fluid mechanics
- 1.1.3 Heat transfer
- 1.2 Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer
- 1.3 Dimensions and units
- 1.4 Organization of the book
- Problems
- References
- Chapter 2 Energy and thermodynamics
- 2.1 The study of energy
- 2.2 The conservation of energy
- 2.3 The quality of energy
- 2.4 Thermodynamic systems
- 2.5 Thermodynamic state, equilibrium, and properties
- Problems
- References
- Chapter 3 Moving fluids
- 3.1 What is a fluid?
- 3.2 The continuum fluid
- 3.3 Nature thrives in moving fluids
- 3.4 What is viscosity?
- 3.5 Newtonian fluids
- 3.6 A classification of fluid motions
- 3.6.1 Fluid viscosity
- 3.6.2 Fluid compressibility
- 3.6.3 Flow space
- 3.6.4 Steady versus unsteady flow
- 3.6.5 Laminar versus turbulent flow
- 3.7 Fluid mechanics textbooks
- Problems
- References
- Chapter 4 The transfer of thermal energy
- 4.1 What is thermal energy?
- 4.2 Specific heats
- 4.3 Heat transfer versus thermodynamics
- 4.4 The three heat transfer mechanisms
- 4.4.1 Conduction
- 4.4.2 Convection
- 4.4.3 Radiation
- Problems
- References
- Part 2 An Ecological View on Engineering Thermodynamics
- Chapter 5 The four laws of ecology
- 5.1 What is ecology?
- 5.2 The four laws of ecology
- 5.3 Animal thermoregulation
- 5.4 Learning from intelligent designs
- 5.4.1 Natural-convection-enabled air transport
- 5.4.2 Wearing polar bear hair
- 5.4.3 Ecological buildings
- 5.4.4 Intelligent designs are complex and integrated
- Problems
- 8.3 Hydrostatic pressure
- 8.4 Measuring pressure
- 8.5 Hydrostatic force on a surface
- 8.5.1 Curved two-dimensional surfaces
- 8.6 Buoyancy
- 8.6.1 Immersed bodies
- 8.6.2 Floating bodies
- Problems
- References
- Chapter 9 Bernoulli flow
- 9.1 Streamline, streakline, and pathline
- 9.1.1 Streamline
- 9.1.2 Streakline
- 9.1.3 Pathline
- 9.2 Streamline, streamtube, and Bernoulli's Wig
- 9.3 The Bernoulli equation
- 9.4 Bernoulli's pressures
- 9.5 Flow rate measurements
- 9.6 Energy line and hydraulic grade line
- Problems
- References
- Chapter 10 Dimensional analysis