In addition to the increased pace of industrial R&D, many American companies have manufacturing
 facilities, as well as product development activities in other countries. Furthermore, the restructuring of
 many companies has led to an excessive burden of debt and to curtailment of in-house industrial research.
 All of these developments make it imperative for industry to have access to the latest information in a
 convenient form as rapidly as possible. The goal of this handbook is to provide this type of up-to-date
 information for engineers involved in the field of thermal engineering.
 This handbook is not designed to compete with traditional handbooks of heat transfer that stress
 fundamental principles, analytical approaches to thermal problems, and elegant solutions of traditional
 problems in the thermal sciences. The goal of this handbook is to provide information on specific topics
 of current interest in a convenient form that is accessible to the average engineer in industry. The
 handbook contains in the first three chapters sufficient background information to refresh the reader's
 memory of the basic principles necessary to understand specific applications. The bulk of the book,
 however, is devoted to applications in thermal design and analysis for technologies of current interest,
 as well as to computer solutions of heat transfer and thermal engineering problems