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Summary
Summary
This is a graduate level textbook in nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion that can also be used as a reference for researchers in the developing field of nanoengineering. It provides a comprehensive overview of microscale heat transfer, focusing on thermal energy storage and transport. Chen broadens the readership by incorporating results from related disciplines, from the point of view of thermal energy storage and transport, and presents related topics on the transport of electrons, phonons, photons, and molecules. This book is part of the MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering.
Author Notes
Gang Chen is at MIT.
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Nanotechnology is increasingly integrated among subject disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, and aerospace and electrical engineering. Students must have a broader understanding of the correlation between these interdisciplinary subjects. Chen (MIT) wrote this book to support the development of new courses in mechanical engineering departments to meet demands to increase the knowledge base in nanotechnology. Chen uses a parallel approach in presenting fundamentals of heat transfer and energy conversion learned in such classes as quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, kinetics, and electrodynamics as well as the transfer of heat by energy carriers such as electrons, molecules, phonons, and photons. Laws traditionally describing heat transfer, such as the Stefan-Boltzmann law for thermal radiation, the Fourier law for heat conduction, and Newton's law of cooling for convection, combined with the first and second laws of thermodynamics, are discussed and provide equations in determining energy conversion efficiency and heat transfer rates. The book is designed as a senior- or graduate-level course resource and will also serve as a reference for practicing engineers and researchers. Included at chapter-ends are sections listing nomenclatures, extensive references, and exercises. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. A. Nelson University of Texas at Arlington
Table of Contents
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 Material Waves and Energy Quantization |
| 3 Energy States in Solids |
| 4 Statistical Thermodynamics and Thermal Energy Storage |
| 5 Energy Transfered by Waves |
| 6 Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws |
| 7 Classical Size Effects |
| 8 Energy Conversion and Coupled Transport Processes |
| 9 Liquids in Their Interfaces |
| 10 Molecular Dynamics Simulation |
| Appendix A Homogeneous Semiconductors |
| Appendix B Semiconductor p-n Junctions |
| Index |
| Units and Their Conversions |
| Physical Constants |
