Two-Phase Flow, Boiling, and Condensation (2^nd Ed., Revised edition) In Conventional and Miniature Systems

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals and applications of flow and heat transfer in conventional and miniature systems, this fully enhanced and updated edition covers all the topics essential for graduate courses on two-phase flow, boiling, and condensation. Beginning with a concise review of single-phase flow fundamentals and interfacial phenomena, detailed and clear discussion is provided on a range of topics, including two-phase hydrodynamics and flow regimes, mathematical modeling of gas-liquid two-phase flows, pool and flow boiling, flow and boiling in mini and microchannels, external and internal-flow condensation with and without noncondensables, condensation in small flow passages, and two-phase choked flow. Numerous solved examples and end-of-chapter problems that include many common design problems likely to be encountered by students, make this an essential text for graduate students. With up-to-date detail on the most recent research trends and practical applications, it is also an ideal reference for professionals and researchers in mechanical, nuclear, and chemical engineering.

Part I. Two-Phase Flow: 1. Thermodynamic and single-phase flow fundamentals; 2. Gas-liquid interfacial phenomena; 3. Two-phase mixtures, fluid dispersions, and liquid films; 4. Two-phase flow regimes - I; 5. Two-phase flow modeling; 6. The drift flux model and void-quality relations; 7. Two-phase flow regimes - II; 8. Pressure drop in two-phase flow; 9. Countercurrent flow limitation; 10. Two-phase flow in small flow passages; Part II. Boiling and Condensation: 11. Pool boiling; 12. Flow boiling; 13. Critical heat flux and post-CHF heat transfer in flow boiling; 14. Flow boiling and CHF in small passages; 15. Fundamentals of condensation; 16. Internal-flow condensation and condensation on liquid jets and droplets; 17. Choking in two-phase flow.

S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan is a Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty in 1991, Professor Ghiaasiaan worked in the Aerospace and Nuclear Power industry for eight years, conducting research and development activity on modeling and simulation of transport processes, multi-phase flow, and nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety. Professor Ghiaasiaan has more than 200 publications on transport phenomena and multiphase flow, is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has been an Executive Editor for Annals of Nuclear Energy since 2006. He is also the author of the widely used graduate text Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (Cambridge, 2011).