Author : Maurice Anthony Biot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Book Synopsis Variational Principles in Heat Transfer by : Maurice Anthony Biot
Download or read book Variational Principles in Heat Transfer written by Maurice Anthony Biot and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book develops a variational treatment of heat transfer which includes heat conduction and convection. It is intended to provide the foundation of a unified analysis of irreversible processes by methods analogous to those of classical mechanics. This opens the way to a formulation of heat transfer and dissipative phenomena in complex systems by means of Lagrangian-type equations and generalized coordinates. At the same time this approach suggests many approximate procedures and drastic simplifications applicable to the practical solution of a large category of problems in physics and technology. (Author).