Design of thermal systems - Stoecker, W. F. (Wilbert F.), 1925- (New Delhi : Tata McGraw-Hill, 1989)
1 Engineering Design -- 2 Designing a Workable System -- 3 Economics -- 4 Equation Fitting -- 5 Modeling Thermal Equipment -- 6 System Simulation -- 7 Optimization -- 8 Lagrange Multipliers -- 9 Search Methods -- 10 Dynamic Programming -- 11 Geometric Programming -- 12 Linear Programming -- 13 Mathematical Modeling-Thermodynamic Properties -- 14 Steady-State Simulation of Large Systems -- 15 Dynamic Behavior of Thermal Systems -- 16 Calculus: Methods of Optimization -- 17 Vector and Reduced Gradient Searches -- 18 Calculus of Variations and Dynamic Programming
Includes reference bibliographies and index.
Keywords: Heat engineering; Systems engineering; Engineering design