Prasanna Kumar was born in Mysore on 23rd May 1945. He did his schooling in Bangalore. Hecompleted his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from UVCE Bangalore in 1965 and his postgraduate studies obtaining the degree of master of engineering in applied thermal sciences from the University of Roorkee in 1970. He obtained his PhD degree in "Heat Transfer Augmentation Using Twisted Tapes," from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1980. His professional work took him to prestigious industries such as Jyoti Limited (Baroda), BHEL R & D (Hyderabad), and Vulcan Laval Limited, Pune.
Starting from 1999, he has been devoting his full time to teaching and academic administration. He has guided innumerable batches of students at the undergraduate level and postgraduate level for their fi nal year projects. He has been teaching subjects such as thermodynamics, heat transfer, fl uid mechanics, gas dynamics, and renewable energy sources. He is currently Professor at Northern India Engineering College, New Delhi
Chapter 1 Fundamental Concepts and Definitions
Chapter 2 Work and Heat
Chapter 3 Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 4 The First Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 5 First Law Analysis of Open Systems
Chapter 6 Second Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 7 Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 8 Availability
Chapter 9 Thermodynamic Property Relations
Chapter 10 Properties of Pure Substances
Chapter 11 Ideal and Real Gases
Chapter 12 Non-reactive Gas Mixtures
Chapter 13 Psychrometrics
Chapter 14 Reactive Gas Mixtures—Combustion
Chapter 15 Vapour Power Cycles
Chapter 16 Reciprocating IC Engine Cycles
Chapter 17 Gas Turbine Cycles
Chapter 18 Refrigeration Cycles
Chapter 19 Reciprocating Compressors
Chapter 20 Turbines
Chapter 21 Fundamentals of Compressible Flow