Yunus A. Çengel is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. His areas of interest are renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy policies, heat transfer enhancement, and engineering education. He served as the director of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1996 to 2000. He has led teams of engineering students to numerous manufacturing facilities in Northern Nevada and California to perform industrial assessments, and has prepared energy conservation, waste minimization, and productivity enhancement reports for them. He has also served as an advisor for various government organizations and corporations.

  Dr. Çengel is also the author or coauthor of the widely adopted textbooks Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach (8th ed., 2015), Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications (5th ed., 2015), Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (2nd ed., 2008), Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications (3rd ed., 2014), Essentials of Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications (1st ed., 2008), and Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists (1st ed., 2013), all published by McGraw-Hill. Some of his textbooks have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Greek, and French.

  Dr. Çengel is the recipient of several outstanding teaching awards, and he has received the ASEE Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award for excellence in authorship in 1992 and 2000.

John M. Cimbala is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from CalTech in 1984 under the supervision of Professor Anatol Roshko, to whom he will be forever grateful. His research areas include experimental and computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, turbulence, turbulence modeling, turbomachinery, indoor air quality, and air pollution control. Professor Cimbala completed sabbatical leaves at NASA Langley Research Center (1993–1994), where he advanced his knowledge of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and at Weir American Hydro (2010–2011), where he performed CFD analyses to assist in the design of hydroturbines.

  Dr. Cimbala is the coauthor of three other textbooks: Indoor Air Quality Engineering: Environmental Health and Control of Indoor Pollutants (2003), published by Marcel-Dekker, Inc.; Essentials of Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications (2008); and Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd ed. (2014), both published by McGraw-Hill. He has also contributed to parts of other books, and is the author or coauthor of dozens of journal and conference papers. He has also recently published a nontechnical novel. More information can be found at www.mne.psu.edu/cimbala.

  Professor Cimbala is the recipient of several outstanding teaching awards and views book writing as an extension of his love for teaching. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the American Physical Society (APS).

Robert H. Turner is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He earned a B.S. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from UCLA, all in mechanical engineering. He worked in the industry for 18 years, including nine years at CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Dr. Turner then joined the University of Nevada in 1983. His research interests include solar and renewable energy applications, thermal sciences, and energy conservation. He established and was the first director of the Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Nevada.

  For 20 years, Dr. Turner has designed the solar components of many houses. In 1994–1995, in a cooperative effort between UNR and Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey, he designed and oversaw construction of the fully instrumented Solar Research Laboratory at Erciyes University, featuring 130 square meters of site-integrated solar collectors. His interest in applications has led Dr. Turner to maintain an active consulting practice.

  Dr. Turner is a registered Professional Engineer and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).