Yunus A. Çengel,
University of Nevada, Reno John M. Cimbala,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
ISBN: 0072472367 Copyright year: 2006
About the Authors
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 research areas are
renewable energy, desalination, exergy analysis, heat transfer enhancement,
radiation heat transfer, and energy conservation. 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 do industrial
assessments, and has prepared energy conservation, waste minimization, and
productivity enhancement reports for them.
Dr. Çengel is the coauthor of the widely adopted textbook Thermodynamics:
An Engineering Approach, 4th edition (2002), published by McGraw-Hill.
He is also the author of the textbook Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach, 2nd
edition (2003), and the coauthor of the textbook Fundamentals of Thermal-
Fluid Sciences, 2nd edition (2005), both published by McGraw-Hill. Some of
his textbooks have been translated to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish,
Turkish, Italian, and Greek.
Dr. Çengel is the recipient of several outstanding teacher awards, and he
has received the ASEE Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award for excellence
in authorship in 1992 and again in 2000.
Dr. Çengel is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada, and
is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and
the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).John M. Cimbala is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania
State Univesity, 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. During the academic
year 1993–94, Professor Cimbala took a sabbatical leave from the University
and worked at NASA Langley Research Center, where he advanced his
knowledge of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling.
Dr. Cimbala is the coauthor of the textbook Indoor Air Quality Engineering:
Environmental Health and Control of Indoor Pollutants (2003), published
by Marcel-Dekker, Inc. He has also contributed to parts of other books, and is
the author or co-author of dozens of journal and conference papers. More
information can be found at www.mne.psu.edu/cimbala.
Professor Cimbala is the recipient of several outstanding teaching awards
and views his book writing as an extension of his love of teaching. He is a
member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE), and the American Physical Society (APS).
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