A single source of information for the many facets of transport phenomena
This hands-on guide lays out core principles and practices of heat, mass, and momentum transfer in one useful resource. Written by a seasoned biological and agricultural engineering professor, Transport Phenomena for Biological and Agricultural Engineers: A Problem-Based Approach includes examples and problem sets reflecting real-world applications. You will explore fluid, mass, and heat transfer; pressure measurements; Fick’s and Kirchhoff’s Laws; and much more. This textbook is designed to be the singular resource for biological and agricultural engineering students studying transport phenomena.
Coverage includes:
- Modes of heat transfer
- Conduction heat transfer
- Steady-state conduction heat transfer
- Unsteady state conduction
- Convection heat transfer
- Design and analysis of heat exchangers
- Elements of thermal radiation
- Fluid flow fundamentals
- Flow through pipes
- Pumps and fans
- Fundamentals of mass transfer
- Introduction to psychrometrics
- Fundamentals of refrigeration
- Introduction to adsorption
