Mathematics of Heat Transfer [Hardcover]

This collection provides a comprehensive look at current work on heat transfer, and topics include heat exchangers, phase-change problems, flow, porous media, extended surfaces, general mathematical techniques, rheology, inverse problems, and specific industrial heat transfer processes. The contributions come from fifteen countries around the world and include work by mathematicians, engineers, experimentalists, and industrialists.

1. Mathematical aspects of heat transfer in rheology
2. Inverse problems in heat transfer
3. Constructal optimization of paths for heat transfer
4. Prediction of turbulent heat transfer in single-phase industrial flows
5. Dynamic instability of rapid solidification fronts
6. CFD modelling of radiative-convective heat flux sensor
7. Stochastic model of liquid filtration in porous media with large-scale inhomogeneities
8. Evolution of a 1-D plasma to thermal equilibrium
9. Continuous cellular automata for heat conduction
10. Stefan problem in blow moulding operations
11. Modelling of heat transfer in the curing of insulated cables
12. Analysis of composed fin arrays
13. Stochastic geometric model of combustion in two-phase turbulent flow
14. Random walk trajectory model of interphase heat exchange in turbulent twop-phase flow
15. Solution in two-phase Stefan problems by the heat balance integral method
16. 2-D unsteady temperature in a boiler shell by the multistage-multigroup least squares method
17. Interaction of insoluble spherical particles with a solidifying interface in the presence of morphological instabilities
18. Transient mixed convection from a vertical surface in a porous medium
19. Solving systems of ordinary differential equations
20. Precedence ordering techniques
21. New approach to modelling structures of randomly intersecting pores. Application to char gasification
22. Experimental heat transfer intensification in two-dimensional flow under bulk forcesl³q