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Title: Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 0471410772
Author:
R. Byron Bird
Warren E. Stewart
Edwin N. Lightfoot
Publicate Date: 2001-07-25
Publish: 2001-07-25
List Price: $140.60
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Difficult but very good
This book was very difficult to understand on first pass through for my classes in Fluid Mechanics. However I have used it several times as a reference and each time I read it I seem to get more and more out of it. Requires a very good undertanding of vector calculus, but the examples are very helpful and are general enough that you can apply the principles learned to other situations.
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2: Great, great book, only minor faults
This book is one of the best books I've come across as an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering. It presents the subject matter very well, in a nice, concise, well thought out order and layout. In addition, the text is unexpectedly not dense for such subject matter, and is very clear. Given some time with the book, reading is no problem! It gives ample practice problems and example problems. Only fault would be that it does not cover Stream Functions and Dimensional Analysis very well and that it sometimes does not give enough/good example problems for a few subjects. Overall though, a pleasure to use for the course!
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3: A poor replacement for the original
The original BSL (red cover) edition contained a wealth of information and detailed derivations of each method. This new book is quite pathetic when compared to the original. Very little theoretical background and development is presented. Most of the useful reference material has been eliminated. Don't waste your money on this book. Buy the original.
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4: THE Standard for Transport Phenomenon
Using this book as an undergraduate student, it really was hard for me to understand what it was telling me at first, but combined with a good professor I realized that the book was very readable and has detailed, consise information about transport processes. It also serves as a great reference to fluid mechanics and heat transfer courses.
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5: Transport Phenomena
Anyone who either teaches the subject Transport Phenomena in Chemical Engineering or related departments, or anyone who is involved in transport-related research, would know the importance of this book: it is simply the gold standard because it treated all the three transport subjects (Momentum, Heat and Mass) in one book. It is rare to find other textbooks that cover all the three subjects to the depth one wishes to be covered. I like the footnotes that are embedded at the bottom of the pages to provide quick information on how and when the particular Section or Chapter is developed by those who studied and formulated it. It also constantly reminds the reader about those pioneers in the field. This last point is particularly useful to researchers more than to the undergraduates. It is a textbook that survived the taste of time for nearly 50 years.
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