JOHN R. HOWELL
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78712-1063
PREFACE
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The first edition of this Catalog appeared in 1982. It was printed in a low-cost format. It used camera-ready copy prepared by the author and was printed on low-quality paper in a soft cover with a glued binding. These measures kept the cost low. A major market for the Catalog was as a supplement to undergraduate and graduate heat transfer courses and graduate radiation heat transfer courses. The low price was necessary for such a market. This Second Edition is in web format so that it can again be adopted as a text supplement as well as a reference for engineers and researchers involved in radiative transfer. The wide use of programmable calculators and laptops makes it feasible to compute most configuration factors from algebraic relations or by numerical integration. Therefore, the number of factors presented in graphical form is reduced in this edition. Algebraic relations are presented where possible.
Finally, the author thanks the colleagues who reported errors in the first edition. These are corrected in the present edition as reported. It will be appreciated if further errors found in the present edition are sent to the author at the e-mail address below: A print version is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZFJS9PD/ Or at the QR code: |
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