Thermal systems are essential features of all domestic and industrial applications involving heat and fluid flow. Focusing on the design of thermal systems, this book bridges the gap between the theories of thermal science and design of practical thermal systems. Further, it discusses thermodynamic design principles, mathematical and CFD tools that will enable students as well as professional engineers to quickly analyze and design practical thermal systems. The major emphasis is on practical problems related to contemporary energy- and environment-related thermal systems including discussions on computational fluid dynamics used in thermal system design.

Features

• Exclusive book integrating thermal sciences and computational approaches
• Covers both philosophical concepts related to systems and design, to numerical methods, to design of specific systems, to computational fluid dynamics strategies
• Focus on solving complex real-world thermal system design problems instead of just designing a single component or simple systems
• Introduces usage of statistics and machine learning methods to optimize the system
• Includes sample PYTHON codes, exercise problems, special projects

This book is aimed at senior undergraduate/graduate students and industry professionals in mechanical engineering, thermo-fluids, HVAC, energy engineering, power engineering, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering.

Mar Campins Eritja is Professor of Public International Law at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). Her scientific interest has focused on the international and EU legal protection of the environment, with a special emphasis on the international regime on climate change, the international regime on dangerous wastes, and the environmental protection of the Arctic. She leads and participates in various competitive research projects and has published extensively in these areas and is the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law (2017–2020, 2020–2023) funded by the EU Commission. In addition to her teaching duties at the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de Barcelona, she has held various management positions: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law (2002–2004 and 2016–2021), Assistant to the Vice-Rector for International Policy, and Vice-Rector for International Policy (2005–2008). She has been a Fulbright scholar at American University and visiting professor at Nova Southeastern University, the University of Puerto Rico, Lapland University, the University of Ottawa, Dalhousie University, the Université de Montréal, and Strathclyde University. She was Member of the Direction Board of the UB Research Water Institute (2015–2022) and Member of the Center for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT) at the University Rovira i Virgili.

Xavier Fernández-Pons is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Bologna, and he is also Diplomate of the Centre for Studies and Research of The Hague Academy of International Law. He is Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT) at the University Rovira i Virgili and Member of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Environmental Law at the University of Barcelona. His main lines of research are international economic law, World Trade Organization, regional trade agreements, foreign investments, European Union’s trade policy, trade and environment, and trade and health, all areas in which he has published extensively.