TY - CHAP AU - Piyush Sabharwall AU - Eung Soo Kim ED - Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - High Temperature Thermal Devices for Nuclear Process Heat Transfer Applications N2 - This book comprises heat transfer fundamental concepts and modes (specifically conduction, convection and radiation), bioheat, entransy theory development, micro heat transfer, high temperature applications, turbulent shear flows, mass transfer, heat pipes, design optimization, medical therapies, fiber-optics, heat transfer in surfactant solutions, landmine detection, heat exchangers, radiant floor, packed bed thermal storage systems, inverse space marching method, heat transfer in short slot ducts, freezing an drying mechanisms, variable property effects in heat transfer, heat transfer in electronics and process industries, fission-track thermochronology, combustion, heat transfer in liquid metal flows, human comfort in underground mining, heat transfer on electrical discharge machining and mixing convection. The experimental and theoretical investigations, assessment and enhancement techniques illustrated here aspire to be useful for many researchers, scientists, engineers and graduate students. BT - Developments in Heat Transfer SP - Ch. 17 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/21093 DO - 10.5772/21093 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -