Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow

Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow
R. W. Lewis,Perumal Nithiarasu,Kankanhalli Seetharamu | 2004-05-28 00:00:00 | Wiley | 356 | Engineering
Heat transfer is the area of engineering science which describes the energy transport between material bodies due to a difference in temperature. The three different modes of heat transport are conduction, convection and radiation. In most problems, these three modes exist simultaneously. However, the significance of these modes depends on the problems studied and often, insignificant modes are neglected.

Very often books published on Computational Fluid Dynamics using the Finite Element Method give very little or no significance to thermal or heat transfer problems. From the research point of view, it is important to explain the handling of various types of heat transfer problems with different types of complex boundary conditions. Problems with slow fluid motion and heat transfer can be difficult problems to handle. Therefore, the complexity of combined fluid flow and heat transfer problems should not be underestimated and should be dealt with carefully.

This book:

• Is ideal for teaching senior undergraduates the fundamentals of how to use the Finite Element Method to solve heat transfer and fluid dynamics problems
• Explains how to solve various heat transfer problems with different types of boundary conditions
• Uses recent computational methods and codes to handle complex fluid motion and heat transfer problems
• Includes a large number of examples and exercises on heat transfer problems

In an era of large-scale computing, computational efficiency and easy to handle codes play a major part. Bearing all these points in mind, the topics covered on combined flow and heat transfer in this book will be an asset for practising engineers and postgraduate students. Other topics of interest for the heat transfer community, such as heat exchangers, are also included.
Reviews
Simply excellent! I didn't have any experience with heat transfer or finite elements and this book(alone) managed to give me all the necessary information very quickly. It's simple and easy to follow in contrary to many other books that have difficult maths and strange notations. It has many worked out examples and you can see how the FEM method works and understand it fully , although sometimes the implementation is done quite automatically!. In order to benefit the most from this book, you shouldn't skip anything because you'd be wondering later. The main drawback of this book is the explanation for the assembly of the total stiffness matrix.Basically there isn't any, apart from a simple a simple case and not the general case. But as i said before the other books are far more difficult, so this one is here to fill the gap for the first-timers. And it does a great job!

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