Principles of Enhanced Heat Transfer, Third Edition

Ralph L. Webb was a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and has published over 275 papers in the general area of heat transfer enhancement and has eight U.S. patents on enhanced heat transfer surfaces. He performed research on enhanced heat transfer in boiling, condensation, fouling, air-cooled heat exchangers, electronic equipment cooling, forced convection for gases and liquids, wetting coatings to promote drainage of thin liquid films, and frost formation. Prof. Webb was the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, an editor of Heat Transfer Engineering journal, and recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the UK Refrigeration Institute Hall-Thermotank Gold Medal, and the AIChE Donald Q. Kern award. He was also a Fellow of ASME and ASHRAE and a Life Member of ASME. Bengt Sunden graduated as a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (Goeteborg, Sweden) in 1973, and presented his PhD thesis in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1979 at Chalmers University. In 1980 he was appointed Docent (the highest academic degree in Sweden) at Chalmers, and held positions there as Research Associate, Docent and University lecturer. In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Heat Transfer at Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and since 1995 he has served as the Head of the Department of Energy Sciences.Nae-Hyun Kim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Incheon, Korea. He earned his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Ralph L. Webb. Since then, he has been working closely with air-conditioning and refrigeration industries, where enhanced heat transfer technology has been successfully employed. Prof. Kim has published more than 30 international journal and conference papers related to boiling, condensation, fouling, and forced convection of liquids and gases. He is a member of ASME and ASHRAE.