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Essentials of Heat Transfer: Principles, Materials, and Applications, by

Massoud Kaviany

Article  in  Contemporary Physics · June 2013

DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2013.811292

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 Essentials of Heat Transfer
Massoud Kaviany
Cambridge University Press 2011
722 pages
price xxx GBP
hardcover
ISBN 9781107012400
textbook
undergraduates and advanced undergraduates
Dr. Manuel Vogel, TU Darmstadt and GSI Darmstadt, m.vogel@gsi.de

The subtitle of 'Essentials of Heat Transfer' is 'Principles, Materials and Applications'. It already gives
away the fact that this book takes a look at heat transfer as an engineering discipline rather than a
subject of pure physics. The definition of heat transfer is given as 'a result of the spatial variation of
temperature within a medium, or within adjacent media, in which energy may be stored, converted
to or from other forms of energy and work, or exchanged with the surroundings.' Looking at it as an
engineering discipline, 'heat transfer deals with the innovative use of the principles of thermal
science in solving the relevant technological problems.'
The author, Massoud Kaviany, is professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics at the
University of Michigan. He has won several awards for his teaching, and has previously written
several books on related topics, namely 'Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media', 'Principles of
Convective Heat Transfer', 'Heat Transfer Physics', and 'Principles of Heat Transfer' (John Wiley and
Sons, 2002). The latter contains portions of the content of the present book.
The main content here is: 'Introduction and Preliminaries', 'Energy Equation', 'Conduction',
'Radiation', 'Convection: Unbounded Fluid Streams', 'Convection: Semi-Bounded Fluid Streams',
'Convection: Bounded Fluid Streams', 'Heat Transfer in Thermal Systems' and three appendices with
'Some Thermodynamic Relations', 'Derivation of Differential-Volume Energy Equation' and 'Tables of
Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties'. Some of the topics listed in the table of contents
are not treated within the book, but are to be found on the accompanying webpage
www.cambridge.org/kaviany under 'Ancillary materials'. They are given in a 406-page PDF document
entitled 'Kaviany Extra Chapter Content for Essential of HT.pdf'. This was done to give the present
book 'a more manageable length' in contrast to its earlier version. Also, the previously used problem-
solving engine has been replaced with the more widespread and more modern MATLAB software,
which is particularly relevant to chapter 8.
Both the treatment in the book and in the additional material is thorough and focused on technical
application. It is the author's statement that 'this introductory textbook aims to provide
undergraduate engineering students with the knowledge (principles, materials and applications) they
need to understand and analyse the heat transfer problems they are likely to encounter in practise'.
Consequently, the book gives many examples and problems from a wide range of technical
applications. Answers to the problems are given in the backmatter of the book, however without
derivation. A full solutions manual is available on the website to qualified (registered) instructors.
The text is well-written and accessible at the undergraduate level. Numerous black and white figures
illustrate the devices and processes under discussion. The book is a successful implementation of the
above-stated aims and deserves a recommendation as a textbook for undergraduate students in
engineering who take courses in thermal physics or thermal engineering.

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