A Heat Transfer Textbook: Fifth Edition (Dover Books on Engineering)

As a professor teaching heat transfer courses, I reference this book often. Compared to other textbooks we often use, this textbook provides better historical context, more application-ready properties, and more practical examples. It has more detail on heat exchanger design and mass transfer than many alternatives, with sufficient detail to make a good textbook for graduate convection courses too. The appendix information is pretty helpful too. Notably, a past review mentions no “thermal resistance” in the index, but it’s there on page 770 with 13 subentries. Given that review’s focus on the solution’s manual, it makes me wonder how legitimately they were working in their class or even reading the book!

The book came just as described. My problem is that this is the worst textbook I have ever used. The provided solution manual has incorrect solutions and is very difficult to follow. The examples in the book are difficult to follow and often skip steps. It is difficult to look up information in the book as well. I looked up 'resistance', the index told me to refer to 'Thermal resistance'. There is no 'Thermal resistance' in the index. Worst book I've ever used for a college-level course and I have no faith in the content based on the mistakes I've found in the book and solution manual. This book should not be used for teaching.