Arpaci V. Conduction heat transfer

Addison-Wesley, 1966. — 550 p.This book is written for engineering students and for engineers working in heat transfer research or on thermal design. A new book on conduction is going to give rise to a number of questions among the members of the latter group: What conceivable reason inspired the author to write another book on conduction? Do we not already have the first and last testaments of conduction by Fourier and by Carslaw and Jaeger? What is the importance of conduction in today's engineering heat transfer studies? And so on. After all, is it not the feeling among engineers that the temperature problems associated with solids are now classical, with many solutions existing in the literature for a number of geometries and boundary conditions? Doubtless, from the viewpoint of mathematics, the foregoing points are all quite valid. One cannot claim, however, that the foundations of engineering conduction are based on mathematics only. And this text is intended, not to serve as an additional catalog of a number of new situations which are not listed in Carslaw and Jaeger, but rather to introduce the reader to engineering conduction.