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~ :::~: ":.}: ~: '~p'; ' 1" r :) I J • • - - " _ • • ~_ _ 4' • ~ _ ' ' " "~ : " r:- "' , \ ' " ~- : :~ t, , t• • ~: : I' I ,tJ l7{EFACE ~ TO TIm THIR.D,,.E DITI01\I , I , , : ~ "" " - " , ' J ' " , ' The field of thermal ,system design and analysis continues to develop The number of workers is gro\\"ing, technical papers appear in greater numbers, and new textbooks are _being written The major objective of this third ,edition is tQ organize so.me of the new approaches that are now ,avaHabJe and to provide more flexibibty to - instructors who use Design of Thermal Systems as a texL The changes to the twelve chapters of the second edition are modest and mainly constitute the inclusion of some additional end-of-chapter problems Chapters 13 tPJ"Dugh \ 19, ho\v~yer, are all new_ One possible use of th~ text is to cover the first twelve chapters in an advanced-level undergraduate course and the remaining seven chapters as a graduate COjJfse In some engineering schools students already have some J.01d of optimiiatlOn course prior to ' taking the' thermal design course For those classes certai)1 chapters of the fIrst hvelve (usually the ones on search methods, dynamic prograrrul:ring, and linear proirarruning) can be omi.tted and material can be supplemented from the, new seven chapters Several of the new chapters are exten~ions of the introductions offered in the lust twelve chapters, especially mathematical moqeling, steady~state system simulation', and search methods Chapter 14 addresses $.Orne of the challenges that arise when simulating Jarge, thennal systems New material appears in Chapter 15 on dynamic be'h~yior, in Chapter 18 which introduces calculus of variations as a companion to dynamic programming, and in Chapter 19 on probabilistic approaches to design, which is exploratory '., The author thanks colleagues both at the University of nlinois at Urbana-Champaign and at other engineering schools for continued input and suggestions during [he past several years on how to keep the ,book fresh ~qraw2Hjl1 would rus,9 like to thank the foHowing ' reviewers for their useful comments: John R Biddle, California State Polytechnic many I t> PREFACE TO TI-IE THIRD EDmON X University, Po'mona; Theodore F ' Smith,.:1be University '- a; Edward Q~ Stoffel" CalifonUa State Polyt~chnic Uriivers~ty; San Luis Obispo; John A Tichy, ,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;, Daniel T Va1~I! e, ~larkson ,College; ?lld 'William' J 'Wepfet" qe'