“This book can simply be summed up as the ‘bible’ for thermal radiation and its calculation methods.”
“I expect to see it on the bookshelf of every university and major research laboratory.”
“Because of the level of details the book has gone into in each specific topic, this book will be especially suitable for occasions where students are expected to read extensively outside the classroom as part of the syllabus.”
–Jennifer X. Wen, Kingston University, UK
“The book is up-to-date and provides excellent coverage.”
“Excellent writing style with nice historical highlights. The most important asset of the book is its clear and consistent notation used throughout the manuscript. It is probably the most comprehensive treatment of the topic that is currently in existence. It has up-to-date bibliography and very sound treatment of electromagnetism foundation of thermal radiation.”
–Andrei Fedorov, Georgia Tech
“Modest has compiled together a comprehensive and detailed understanding in thermal radiative heat transfer for graduate students and practicing engineers.”
–Peter Wong, Tufts University
“Very much up to date and has a good selection of topics.”
“Comprehensive, detailed, but simplified.”
“The author presented the radiative heat transfer and its interactions with other modes of heat transfer in a coherent and integrated manner emphasizing the fundamentals…The book is directed towards the graduate level students as well as towards the scientists and engineers already engaged in subject matter.”
–Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Rice University
From the Back Cover
Radiative Heat Transfer, Third Edition is a comprehensive reference for scientists, engineers, and graduate students working in the field of heat transfer and thermal radiation. This new edition has been updated to include significant advances and the emergence of new research topics over the last decade. Acknowledged in the field as the industry standard resource for radiative heat transfer, the third edition provides basic physics and computational tools, such as models, methodologies, and calculations that are of pivotal importance in energy, combustion, aeronautics, nanotechnology, lighting, and environmental applications.
Written in modular fashion, the new edition of Radiative Heat Transfer 3rd Edition is now divided into 24 chapters, offering complete coverage comprising the four major areas in the field: surface properties; surface transport; properties of participating media; and transfer through participating media. Each chapter shows the development of all analytical methods in substantial detail, aided by numerous examples and chapter-end problems to show how the developed relations may be applied in practice. This makes the new edition an ideal resource for classroom use, for self-study, as well as for reference.
The updated and expanded third edition features:
• An all-new chapter on nanoscale radiative heat transfer • Significant new developments in conventional radiative transfer equation (RTE) solution methods • Greatly expanded coverage of statistical RTE (Monte Carlo) solutions • Significant new information on inverse radiation • More computational methods and up-to-date computer codes, now with many in Matlab® versions • Significant new developments in spectral radiation properties and models, including nonequilibrium • Discussion of modern applications and materials, including interaction with conduction, convection, combustion and turbulence • Available solutions manual to adopting instructors and student materials
About the Author
Michael F. Modest received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Merced. His research interests include all aspects of radiative heat transfer; in particular heat transfer in combustion systems, heat transfer in hypersonic plasmas, and laser processing of materials. For several years, he taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Southern California, followed by 23 years as a Professor of mechanical engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Modest is a recipient of the Heat Transfer Memorial award, the Humboldt Research award, and the AIAA Thermophysics award, among many others. He is an honorary member of the ASME, and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.
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