本书为热系统的设计提供了系统和有效的方法，这在广泛的应用中是有意义的。
Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Third Edition: with MATLAB® Applications provides systematic and efficient approaches to the design of thermal systems, which are of interest in a wide range of applications.
介绍了概念设计、问题描述、建模、仿真、设计评估、实现可行设计和优化的基本概念和过程。
It presents basic concepts and procedures for conceptual design, problem formulation, modeling, simulation, design evaluation, achieving feasible design, and optimization.
第三版强调建模和仿真，通过物理洞察力和模型验证的实验，涵盖了材料选择、可制造性、经济性、敏感性、遗传和梯度搜索方法、基于知识的设计方法、不确定性以及实际情况中出现的其他方面。
Emphasizing modeling and simulation, with experimentation for physical insight and model validation, the third edition covers the areas of material selection, manufacturability, economic aspects, sensitivity, genetic and gradient search methods, knowledge-based design methodology, uncertainty, and other aspects that arise in practical situations.
这个版本的特点是给出了许多新的和修订的例子、问题，采用MATLAB®从不同的应用领域和更广泛的覆盖面分析、模拟。
This edition features many new and revised examples and problems from diverse application areas and more extensive coverage of analysis and simulation with MATLAB®.
Table of contents :
Introduction
Basic Considerations in Design
Modeling of Thermal Systems
Numerical Modeling and Simulation
Acceptable Design of a Thermal System: A Synthesis of Different Design Steps
Economic Considerations
Problem Formulation for Optimization
Lagrange Multipliers
Search Methods
Geometric, Linear, and Dynamic Programming and Other Methods for Optimization
Knowledge-Based Design and Additional Considerations
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