Prof. S.P. Venkateshan obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1977. After spending three years at Yale University, he joined Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1982. He has been teaching subjects related to Thermal Engineering to both UG and PG students for the past 32 years. He has published extensively and has more than 100 publications to his credit. The areas of his interest are: a) Interaction of natural convection with radiation, b) Numerical and experimental heat transfer, c) Heat transfer in space applications d) Radiation heat transfer in participating media and e) Instrumentation. Prof. Venkateshan has been a consultant to ISRO, DRDO, and BHEL in India and NASA in the US. He has three patents to his credit in the area of instrumentation. He has also guided about 30 scholars towards the Ph.D. and a similar number of scholars towards the M.S. (by Research) degree at IIT Madras. The present book had its beginnings in the notesprepared for the course on Heat Transfer taught by him for several years at IIT Madras.

Covers the study of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation useful for UG and PG level

Covers basic principles to advanced level

Sufficient worked examples with illustrations and end chapter exercises given in each chapter

Introduction to the Study of Heat Transfer.- Steady Conduction in one Dimension.- Unsteady Heat Transfer in Lumped Systems.- Heat Transfer from Extended Surfaces.- Multidimensional Conduction, Part 1.- Multidimensional Conduction, Part 2.- Numerical Solutions of Conduction Problems.- Basics of Thermal Radiation.- Surface Radiation.- Radiation in Enclosures.- Radiation in Participating Media.- Laminar Convection in Internal Flow.- Laminar Convection in External Flow.- Convection in Turbulent Flow.- Heat Exchangers.- Natural Convection.- Special Topics in Heat Transfer.- Appendixes.- Bibliography.- Index.