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Kaviany, M. (Massoud)
Heat transfer physics / Massoud Kaviany.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-89897-3 (hardback)
1. Nuclear reactor kinetics. 2. Change of state (Physics) 3. Heat storage. 4. Heat Transmission. I. Title.
QC787.N8K39 2008
536 ?.2 dc22 2008009486

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Heat Transfer Physics is a graduate-level textbook describing the atomic-level kinetics (mechanisms and rates) of thermal energy storage, transport (conduction, convection, and radiation), and transformation (various energy conversions) by principal energy carriers. These carriers are called phonons (lattice vibration waves, also...