Thermofluids Subject Guide


The Information and Library Service compiles occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available in the library and the Institution itself, along with some useful websites to take you further afield.

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Locating Thermofluids Information in the IMechE Library

The following is a list of key shelf numbers for the thermofluids subject area. If you are looking for a particular book please check the Library Catalogue.

Topic Shelf Number
Air pollution 614.712
combined cycle gas turbines 621.312
Computational fluid dynamics 532.05
Flow measurement 532.57
Fluid mechanics 532
Heat exchangers 621.101
Heat transfer 621.101
Refrigerants 665.784
Thermodynamics 621.101
Turbomachinery 621.6

Useful Books

An introductory guide to flow measurement (2002)
(Baker RC) 		532.57 BAK
Computational fluid dynamics (2006) 532.05 SAE (Oversize)
Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of turbomachinery (4th edition) (1998)
(Dixon SL) 		621.6 DIX
Heat exchangers and their simulation, thermal management, and fundamental advances in thermal and fluid sciences (2003) 621.101 SOC (Oversize)
Combined power plants: including combined gas cycle turbine (CCGT) plants (2002)
(Horlock JH) 		621.312
Fluid mechanics with problems and solutions and an aerodynamics laboratory (2005)
(Krause E) 		532 KRA
Heat exchanger design handbook (2000)
(Kuppan T) 		621.101 KUP
Fundamentals of engineering thermodynamics (2004)
(Moran MJ and Shapiro HN) 		621.101 MOR
Fundamentals of fluid mechanics (2005)
(Munson BR et al) 		532
Heat exchanger design techniques (2003)
(Nee MJ) 		621.101 NEE
Fundamentals of heat exchanger design (2003)
(Shah RK and Sekulic DP) 		621.101 SHA
Thermofluids (1996)
(Sherwin K and Horsley M) 		621.101 SHE
Introduction to engineering thermodynamics (2001)
(Sonntag RE and Borgnakke C) 		621.101 SON

E-books

The following titles are available via Knovel in the Virtual Library.

Dixon S L, Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics of turbomachinery 4th ed. 1998
Higman C and Van der Burgt M, Gasification 2003
Mobley R K, Fluid power dynamics 2000
Walsh P P and Fletcher P, Gas turbine performance 2nd ed. 2004
Winterbone D E, Advanced thermodynamics for engineers 1997

The following titles are available via Books24x7 in the Virtual Library.

Air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers, PennWell Corp, 2004
ASHRAE Handbook: refrigeration, ASHRAE 2006
Heat exchanger engineering techniques: process
Hydraulic fluids, a guide to selection, ASME Press
Statistical thermodynamics: fundamentals and applications, Cambridge
University Press, 2005
Thermodynamic properties of water and refrigerants, Skillsoft Press, 2006

Recent Thermofluids Seminars and Conferences

Please visit Thermofluids Papers and Presentations (Archive)

Useful Journals

ASHRAE journal 1959-
ASME journal of fluids engineering
ASME journal of heat transfer
ASME journal of turbomachinery
Gas turbine world 1996-
JSME international journal series B: fluids and thermal engineering
Proceedings of the institute of refrigerations 1943-
Turbomachinery international 2001-

Databases

Please visit the Virtual Library page for information about the library's databases.

Websites

Please visit Thermofluids Web Links

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