The author, a respected authority on heat recovery, provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the modelling of the process of heat transfer embodied in regenerative devices. He brings together material on storage and thermal generators and gives great emphasis to non-linear problems including the representation of temperature dependence of thermophysical properties involved.; In ten dynamic chapters, you will find coverage of: the storage of heat in packing; the Single Blow problem; basic concepts in counterflow thermal regenerators; counterflow regenerators; finite conductivity models; non-linear models of counterflow regenerators; transient response of counterflow regenerators; and parallel flow regenerators. Bringing together material developed over the past twenty years, the book will be of great interest to mechanical and chemical engineers as well as applied mathematicians concerned with models of heat transfer processes.
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John A Willmott
This book offers an insightful blend between theory and practice in an area where the deficiency of steady-state treatments is apparent. The text has an engaging style; a rigorous, but clearly explained mathematical treatment; and an organization that develops the reader from the fundamentals to the most intricate aspects of dynamic response of regenerators. In this way, the book accomplishes two simultaneous objectives: enabling the calculation of conventional or novel regenerators and furnishing useful procedures for practical applications. H Perez Blanco (Dept of Mech Eng, Penn State, 338 Reber Bldg, University Park PA 16801) Appl Mech Rev vol 56, no 2, March 2003.
