Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design

A great book that covers the major design & physics of a variety of industrial heat exchangers (including surface geometry, analysis methods, and selection criteria).

This book is very good.To achive 5 stars it needs a construction chapter.

A very structured book, and has a great balance between theory and practice.

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This is one of the best, current, single-volume, sources of information for those interested in design theory and performance rating methodology for heat exchangers. This is an advanced text that would be most appropriate for graduate students and practicing engineers in the thermal sciences. An introductory course, or text, on basic heat transfer may be required, for those w/ little background in the area, to appreciate the intensity and wealth of information contained in this text.There is detailed coverage of some subjects only mentioned in other heat exchanger design books, i.e. the temperature effectiveness (P-NTU) method, longitudinal conduction effects, non-uniform heat transfer coefficients, flow maldistribution, header/manifold design, to name a few.Comprehensive correlations are well-documented and explained, much of them in generalized and dimensionless forms so they are applicable to a large range of fluids and materials. Quite a bit of tabular data, graphical, and reference information is supplied as well. Some examples are typically worked in each chapter illustrating the analysis technique. The text is well-written and there are few notable errors.I have only one quibble: there is very little useful thermo-physical property data in the appendices of the textbook. You'll need to find this info. elsewhere. Also, I agree w/ the previous reviewer. Details of heat exchanger mechanical design, fabrication, and construction are not well-covered in this book. You might refer to Kuppan's book (or another source) for more recommendations on construction and materials selectionsBottomline: An excellent, advanced textbook on the thermo-hydraulic design and performance rating of heat exchangers.

both writers of the book performed an excellent work on summing up all up to date data on heat ex-changer design problems.the book is written in an order of under-standing the very basic fundamentals.this book (only for graduate and already engineers)- would be an amazing text book.+5 by me.

The product quality is great. Content of the books serves for both newbies as well as veterans. Unlike other books where authors refer to the preceding chapters, here author is referring the succeeding chapters like foreshadowing in novels, so the book must be read more than once to get the full essence about heat exchanger design.

The book is suggested for academics or to develop a theoretical analysis of heat exchanger design.From a practical point of view it lack many characteristics, for example a good treatment of exchanger construction and the general problem of the "design" in itself: it is a very good reference for many theoretical aspects but completely lack of practical aspects.I suggest the book to academics or PhD students

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