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Heat transfer is an important area of study since its applications are universal. Heat transfer plays a role in all sciences and technologies. It plays an important role in both living and non-living things. The scale at which heat transfer takes place spans the smallest scales at the atomic level to very large scales at the level of the universe. The present book is an introduction to the field of “Heat Transfer”, not necessarily covering all its aspects. The present book aims to develop the subject ground up and brings it to a level sufficient to motivate the reader to look at current heat transfer literature.
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These scientists were early contributors to the field of heat transfer; between 1600 and 1950 CE. Several Non-dimensional numbers in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer are named after them.
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Mass transfer is not considered in the present book.
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The medium is assumed to have the same property at all locations inside it.
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These are in the nature of postulates or axioms used in modeling conduction heat transfer in a homogeneous medium.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier 1768–1830, French mathematician and physicist.
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Jožef Stefan, 1835–1893 and Ludwig Boltzmann—1844–1906, Austrian physicists.
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Isaac Newton 1643–1727, English physicist and mathematician.
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Venkateshan, S.P. (2021). Introduction to the Study of Heat Transfer. In: Heat Transfer . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58338-5_1
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