Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics

Book Description

Adrian Bejan's Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics established itself as the definitive volume on this challenging subject. Now, his Third Edition builds on the success of its trailblazing predecessors by providing state-of-the-art coverage in a slimmer, more convenient book.

A brand-new, thought-provoking edition of the unmatched resource on engineering thermodynamics

Moving effortlessly among analysis, essay, and graphics, this streamlined edition of Adrian Bejan's powerful presentation will inspire future generations of researchers and students in all areas of engineering, physics, and life sciences. It features:

• An authoritative treatment of the first and second laws of thermodynamics and the constructal law of natural generation of flow configuration, with prominent focus on the history of the discipline and its main ideas
• Complete chapters on single-phase systems, multiphase systems, chemically reactive systems, exergy analysis, thermodynamic optimization, irreversible thermodynamics, and constructal theory
• Applications of thermodynamics to power generation, solar energy, refrigeration, air conditioning, thermofluid design, and constructal design
• The latest theoretical advances made based on the constructal law: atmospheric circulation and earth climate, animal design (flying, running, swimming), hierarchy and geography of human settlements, scaling laws of all river basins, flow fossils and Egyptian pyramids, and science as a constructal flow architecture
• A wealth of problems and worked-out examples
• Brilliant, original illustrations, plus hundreds of classic and contemporary references

Book Reviews

"Reading the book is a delightful experience that encourages the reader to further deepen his understanding of thermodynamics and the thermal sciences." (Science Direct, December 9, 2007)

"Reading this book is a delightful experience that encourages the reader to further deepen his understanding of thermoydnamics..." - Jaime Cervantes-de Gortari (Internation Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, Dec. 2006)

Customer Reviews

Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics » by A. Bejan is an astonishing construction of classical thermodynamics and of high-level recent developments such as entropy generation minimisation and the constructal theory. This book can be used either by engineering students or by confirmed researchers belonging to a wide range of fields such as thermodynamics of course but also, more generally, physics. The remarkable historical dimension of the book concerning the emergence and the evolution of thermodynamics as a science has to be noticed. By covering the phenomenon of geometry generation in all physics, Bejan's "constructal" contribution to thermodynamics and to science is becoming irreversible!

The third edition of this book provides complete detail of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, including detail perspectives of their historical foundation. It also provides a complete course in advanced engineering thermodynamics in the area of entropy generation minimization, destruction of available work etc., as well as introducing the emerging area of constructal law of configuration generation, a new law of physics. In fact, this book bridges the gap between the old thermodynamics and the new way of thinking (Constructal law) that makes thermodynamics very interesting. Having used this book as a graduate student, I strongly recommend this book. It is a must have book for all engineers in the area of thermal sciences.