Thermal Engineering: Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (De Gruyter Textbook)

This book is a basic textbook of comprehensive thermal science and energy utilization technologies, which is divided into two parts: Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer. Engineering Thermodynamics mainly introduces the basic concepts and laws of thermodynamics, thermophysical properties of commonly used working medium, analysis of typical thermal processes and cycles and ways to improve the cycle efficiency. Heat Transfer mainly introduces the basic laws of heat conduction, convection and radiation, together with the solving methods and technical measures to control the heat transfer process, and design and check methods for heat exchangers. This book absorbs the experience and advantages of similar textbooks, enriches the discussion of basic concepts and laws, and expands the scope of knowledge of thermal engineering. Whether the readers are students embarking on their academic journey or seasoned engineers seeking to enhance their understanding of thermal phenomena, "Thermal Engineering: Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer" is an indispensable resource that bridges theory with practice, offering invaluable insights into the complexities of thermal systems and their relevance to modern engineering challenges.

Lin Qiu is Professor of Thermal Science & Energy Engineering at University of Science and Technology Beijing. Her research focuses on understanding the micro- and nano-scale heat transfer. In particular, nanocarbon structures and their interfaces that mainly involve heat dissipation (e.g., carbon nanotube arrays, carbon nanotube/carbon fibers, graphene nanoplates and graphene-diamond interfaces, etc). Her group concentrates on challenging characterization of novel nanoscale materials with excellent thermal transport properties (e.g. Harmonic wave technology, Raman spectroscopy, Scanning thermal Microscopy, etc). She also performs theoretical mechanism studies on the phonon transmission in nano-carbon materials using molecular dynamics simulation. She also explores possible applications, in collaboration with industrial partners, including nano-thermal interfacial materials, conformal flexible thermosensors, blood flow mapping sensors, thermophysical property measurement instrument, etc. She has co-authored more than 70 publications in international journals, and counts with more than 2,000 citations to her work, and selected into Excellent Young Scientists Fund and Beijing Nova Program

Yanhui Feng, professor and doctoral tutor, is currently the vice director of the School of Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. She obtained her PhD degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2000. She served as syndic of Engineering Thermophysics Professional Committee of Chinese Association of Higher Education, secretary-general of the Energy and Thermal Engineering branch of the Chinese Society for Metals, syndic of the Beijing Institute of Thermophysics and Energy Engineering. She is also the editors of Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, Fuel & Chemical Processes and etc. She has won the Special prize for Metallurgical Science and Technology Award in 2017. She has carried out interdisciplinary cooperative researches in the fields of materials and metallurgy, including the thermophysical properties of micro/nano-assembled materials, and the multi-scale multi-interface transport phenomena with phase change, simulation and optimization of thermal engineering processes for energy saving and pollutant reduction. She obtained Young Scholar Award of Asia International Conference on Thermophysical Properties, Beijing Outstanding Teachers, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Youth Fund. She was selected in "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" by the Ministry of Education of China. She has published more than 120 SCI papers and been cited more than 2000 times, with an h-index of 26.