Review of 'Fundamentals off Fire Phenomena' by James G. Quintiere, Wiley, 2006, ISBN-13 978-0-470-09113-5 and ISBN-10 0-470-09113-4

摘要

Overall this is an excellent textbook for teaching or learning fire dynamics! It is a worthy, fundamentally-based complement to Drysdale's An Introduction to Fire Dynamics. The author's focus is on learning engineering tools via solid theoretical understanding. The author provides an accurate description of the underlying theme and approach developed in the text in the Preface: This book is intended as a senior level or graduate text following introductory courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer. Students need general calculus with a working knowledge of elementary ordinary differential equations. I believe the presentation in this text is unique in that it is the first fire text to emphasize combustion aspects and to demonstrate the continuity of the subject matter for fire as a discipline... It is intended as a pedagogical exposition designed to give the student the ability to look beneath the engineering formulas...