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Summary: Concise, yet in-depth and complete.
Review: This book serves as the basic bible for transport phenomena and services the spectrum of ability levels from the undergraduate student to the accomplished engineer. This book can be hard to read sometimes, but the problems and solutions are very elegant. This book is a "must" for the personal library of every chemical engineer.
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Summary: Unsual symbols
Review: This is a good book actually. Explainations are deep and detailed. But symbols used are not usual, classic, and sometimes make me lazy to read. No wonder some reviewers gave bad impressions about the book. For beginners and mathematics-unbased people, this book is not recommended.
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Summary: (Too) Classical textbook
Review: This is classical textbook for all ChE. It shows incradibly insight in unified approach for fluid mech and heat and mass transf. However, for me, I think this one is too classical for undergrad student now. Anyway, there is no the other books in field , which can compare to this one (I have been waiting also).
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Summary: World Traveler
Review: This is one of the few MUST HAVE books for Chemical Engineers doing process engineering. When I travel (for work) I always take "Transport Phenomena" (aka BSL), The GPA Databook and "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers". When all the simple solutions to a problem have been exhausted, I pull out BSL, find an end-chapter problem similar to my own and work from there. A Practical Tip: The best thing to do with "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers" is to carefuly remove the binding and put it into a 3-hole notebook (e.g., the GPA databook) and then file all the classic process design articles with the appropriate chapters.
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Summary: Sorry for the mathematical notation
Review: This is undoubtedly a classic! More than a classic, I would say, it is a forerunner of a new branch of teaching and analyzing the engineering reality. Why than my low rating? I always was of the opinion that the mathematical formalism used by the authors is confusing and even restrictive. The consequent use of the "nabla" operator created also a new generation of "nabla"-engineers! I am sorry to say that the new edition has changed nothing to the point.
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Summary: Classic text!
Review: This's THE textbook in the subject and no other book has come even close to taking its place. However, this book was written in late 50's and even though the material is still very much relevant, the presentation is definitely not very good. There're a lot of concepts which need precise and lucid explanations. To give an example, the discussion on curvilinear coordinates fails to explain properly the origin of the so-called "unusual" terms in N-S eqns. Also, the idea of jump conditions has not been given good treatment. It'd be great to use the so-called "integral" approach rather than the "differential" approach to derive the relevant eqns, at least for its elegance. However, the subject is so vast that each reader often develops his/her own way of understanding and appreciating it. It's a daunting task to write a book on this subject that would cater to most of, if not all the readers. That way this book, representing one of the earliest and extremely valuable attempts, will remain a classic. The problems at the end of chapters deserve special mention. They're an excellent collection and any student who sincerely works all of them will have a thorough understanding of the basics and can appreciate the subject's nuances and beauties very well.
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Summary: What should be expected from people who take Forty years.
Review: While the first edition was the seminal standard, I don't see how the second edition can be considered the same. First of all just look at the back cover, that's glaring. The numeraters and denomenaters in the differential expressions are reversed from what they should be. Such things make me hesitant to trust any of the rest of this text. If nothing else 40 years is too long for a single edition to be used. McCabe & Smith is about to come out with their 7th edition in since about the same time as the 1st of this one.
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Summary: They must've gotten too Old
Review: While the first edition was the seminal standard, I don't see how the second edition can be considered the same. First of all just look at the back cover, that's glaring. The numeraters and denomenaters in the differential expressions are reversed from what they should be. Then on page 15 the data given for viscosity of water, the columns for dynamic viscosity in mPa-s and kinematic viscosity in cm2/sec are interchanged with each other from what would be correct. Such things make me hesitant to trust any of the rest of this text.
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