Thermal-Fluid Sciences: An Integrated Approach | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Turns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 1218
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 9.1 x 2.2
ISBN: 0521850436
Dewey Decimal Number: 536.7
EAN: 9780521850438
Publication Date: January 30, 2006
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Product Description
This integrated textbook for an engineering course covering thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics is based on the fundamental conservation principles of mass, energy, and momentum. It features many full color illustrations, and includes chapter learning objectives, overviews, historical vignettes, numerous examples of problem-solving, and a format enhanced by innovative self tests and color coding to highlight significant equations and advanced topics. Integrated tutorials show the student how to use modern software, including the NIST Database on CD, to obtain thermodynamic and transport properties. Thermal-Fluid Sciences with Multimedia Fluid Mechanics CD-ROM (ISBN-13: 9780521682411 | ISBN-10: 052168241X)
Book Description
This text is an integrated approach to thermal-fluid science. Topics include engineering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Links between theory and applications are stressed through examples. Integration of the thermal-fluid sciences is achieved by using the fundamental mass, energy, and momentum conservation laws as organizing principles and by using five practical applications--the steam power plant, the jet engine, solar-heated buildings, the spark-ignition engine, and biological systems--as themes throughout. All examples follow the problem-solving method presented in Chapter 1. Numerous problems appear at the end of each chapter.
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 Highly Recommended December 13, 2006
F. Ghani (AUSTRALIA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stephen Turns should be congratulated for writing this book, it is excellent. Covering everything a mechanical engineer would want to know in the areas of Thermodynamics, and heat transfer this book is well written, has plenty of diagrams, excellent examples, and solutions to its problems.
 A unusual attempt January 19, 2007
Antonio F. Valero
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Stephen R. Turns, widely known for making understandable a very difficult field such as combustion without losing rigour midway, attempts to do the same with enginering thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics, all in one.
Nice try. But one wonders about the utility of this book. More than thousand pages, all of them in color, lots of photographs and the latest pedagogical concepts, plus a CD, make it almost a piece of collection for every professor of thermal sciences alive.
But the introduction to advanced topics one was expecting all the way was lacking. Blatantly. Then, what difference does it make with purchasing Incropera's, Moran's and Fox's books out of a sudden?
Well, perhaps price it's only half the answer. I still don't know why. The integrated approach perhaps doesn't complete the other half. Overall: buy it, it will amuse you. And you can give a convincing answer to your relatives when they ask you: hey man, what do you teach at the university?
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