Numerical Exercises in Fire Protection Engineering"This valuable book draws on the author's long and varied experience in combustion technology and contains soundly-based engineering calculations in fire protection engineering based on start-of-the-art methods. These calculations are ideal for student use, requiring no additional mathematical skills beyond those expected of an engineering or physics student. Each chapter has a short introduction followed by worked examples with information for the calculations being derived from international authoritative publications on fire protection engineering, resulting in a valuable teaching/learning tool."--BOOK JACKET. |
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