Thermal Engineering Studies with Excel, Mathcad and Internet [Hardcover]

This book provides the fundamentals of the application of mathematical methods, modern computational tools (Excel, Mathcad, SMath, etc.), and the Internet to solve the typical problems of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, energy conservation and energy efficiency. Chapters cover the technology for creating and using databases on various properties of working fluids, coolants and thermal materials. All calculation methods are provided with links to online computational pages where data can be inserted and recalculated.

 

It discusses tasks involving the generation of electricity at thermal, nuclear, gas turbine and combined-cycle power plants, as well as processes of co- and trigeneration, conditioning facilities and heat pumps.

 

This text engages students and researchers by using modern calculation tools and the Internet for thermal engineering applications.

 

Professor Nikolay Rogalev is the Rector of the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute (NRU MPEI) and Head of the Thermal Power Plants department of the NRU MPEI.

Professor Valery Ochkov works at the Thermal Power Plants department of the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute and at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). He is an author of online calculations pages on the IAPWS-site with properties water and steam. It is the ideology of the world famous programs WaterSteamPro and cloud function with thermal physical properties of the working fluids of thermal and nuclear power. Professor Ochkov is the creator of tlC†