Latent Heat Transfer

This beginning graduate text is the first comprehensive work on latent heat transfer. It covers all forms: evaporation, sublimation, melting, condensation, freezing, and deposition. The work has been designed to provide both insight and example for junior engineering graduate students. The three introductory chapters on the history and significance of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are followed by self-contained treatments of solidification, fluidification, condensation, evaporation and boiling. Direct contact latent heat transfer is covered separately. THe final chapter is devoted exclusively to worked examples. Emphasis throughout is placed on fundamentals which apply equally to industrial and environmental processes.Lock, G. S. is the author of 'Latent Heat Transfer', published 1994 under ISBN 9780198562856 and ISBN 0198562853.