Afshin Ghajar

co-author and editor of Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications and series editor of Engineering Heat Transfer and Conguate Problems in Convective Heat Transfer

November 4, 2015

Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar is a Regents Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA and a Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. all in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in experimental and computational heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Dr. Ghajar has secured several research grants and awards from government agencies and industrial sponsors. His current research is in two-phase flow heat transfer, thermal management of mini and micro systems, and mixed convective heat transfer and pressure drop in the transition region. Dr. Ghajar has been a Summer Research Fellow at Wright Patterson AFB (Dayton, Ohio) and Dow Chemical Company (Freeport, Texas). He and his co-workers have published over 150 reviewed research papers. He has delivered numerous keynote and invited lectures at major technical conferences and institutions. Dr. Ghajar's research in "Two-Phase Flow" and "Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in the Transition Region" has been featured in the recent edition of the Engineering Data Book III of Wolverine Tube, Inc. He has been the author/co-author of six book chapters and has developed three interactive/visual educational software packages: COMPROP2 for compressible flow modeling and computation, SAGTD for simple gas turbine design, and SS-T-CONDUCT for steady state and transient heat conduction calculations. He has received several outstanding teaching/service awards, such as the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, Halliburton Excellent Teaching Award; Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research; Golden Torch Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Leadership, and Service by the Oklahoma State University/National Mortar Board Honor Society, and recently the College of Engineering Outstanding Advisor Award. Dr. Ghajar is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Heat Transfer Series Editor for Taylor & Francis / CRC Press and Editor-in-Chief of Heat Transfer Engineering, an international journal published fourteen times per year by Taylor and Francis. Heat Transfer Engineering is aimed at practicing engineers and specialists in heat transfer. He is also the co-author of the 4th Edition of Cengel and Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications, McGraw-Hill, Feb. 2010.

With complete coverage of the basic principles of heat transfer and a broad range of applications in a flexible format, Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications by Yunus Cengel and Afshin Ghajar provides the perfect blend of fundamentals and applications. The text provides a highly intuitive and practical understanding of the material by emphasizing the physics and the underlying physical phenomena involved. This text covers the standard topics of heat transfer with an emphasis on physics and real-world every day applications, while de-emphasizing the intimidating heavy mathematical aspects. This approach is designed to take advantage of students' intuition, making the learning process easier and more engaging. Using a reader-friendly approach and a conversational writing style, the book is self-instructive and entertains while it teaches. It shows that highly technical matter can be communicated effectively in a simple yet precise language.

Engineering Heat Transfer, Third Edition provides a solid foundation in the principles of heat transfer, while strongly emphasizing practical applications and keeping mathematics to a minimum.

Conjugate Problems in Convective Heat Transfer addresses a key area of analysis important to mechanical & aerospace engineering. It uses a problems-based approach to presenting conjugate methods. The text approaches each topic from 3 directions: theory, methods and applications. Applies engineering applications to illustrate the complex mathematics involved in these problems.

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Last Updated: 14 January 2022