Model a Thermal System without Lengthy Hand Calculations
Before components are purchased and a thermal energy system is built, the effective engineer must first solve the equations representing the mathematical model of the system. Having a working mathematical model based on physics and equipment performance information is crucial to finding a system’s operating point.
Thermal Energy Systems: Design and Analysis
offers a fundamental working knowledge of the analysis and design of thermal-fluid energy systems, enabling users to effectively formulate, optimize, and test their own design projects.
Providing an understanding of the basic concepts of simulation and optimization, and introducing simulation and optimization techniques that can be applied to a system model, this text covers the basic foundations of thermal-fluid system analysis and design. It addresses hydraulic systems, energy systems, system simulation, and system optimization. In addition, it incorporates both SI and English units, and builds current state-of-the-art computer modeling skills throughout the book.
Topics covered include:
Review of thermal engineering concepts
Engineering economics principles
Application of conservation and balance laws
Review of fluid flow fundamentals
Minor losses
Series and parallel pipe networks
Economic pipe diameter
Pump performance and selection
Cavitation
Series and parallel pump systems
The affinity laws for pumps
Heat exchangers, LMTD, and e-NTU methods
Regenerative HX, condensers, evaporators, and boilers
Double-pipe heat exchangers
Shell and tube heat exchangers
Plate and frame heat exchangers
Cross-flow heat exchangers
Thermal energy system simulation
Fitting component performance data
Optimization using Lagrange multipliers
Optimization using software
covers the concepts and the skills needed to plan, model, create, test, and optimize thermal systems; and to use computer simulation software through its use of Engineering Equation Solver (EES).