Symbolic algebra packages such as Maple are popular and efficient tools in engineering and scientific research. This book is the first heat transfer book to fully integrate Maple into the study of elementary and advanced heat conduction, including one-dimensional conduction, two-dimensional steady conduction, transient conduction, oscillatory conduction, extended surfaces, and special functions.Heat Conduction with Maple can be used as a self-contained study of heat conduction or as a supplement to existing textbooks. The reader will learn important heat conduction concepts and applications while simultaneously mastering a powerful software tool that can be utilized to pursue new and challenging problems not only in conduction but also in convection and radiation.
