Important new material includes:

• Heat flux vector tracking that directly leads into the construction of thermal circuit models, and is based on the natural and intuitive drawing of the heat flow paths in practical, complex systems
• Engineering of hot and cold sources, such as combustion, thermal plasma, and thermoelectric cooling
• Microscale heat carriers (conduction, radiation, and convection) and their roles in the design of innovative systems and processes
• An emphasis on both analytical and numerical solutions, with software (SOPHT) that contains the closed-form solutions and models, as well as an easy-to-use numerical solver capable of solving more complex, practical problems
• A final chapter that addresses thermal engineering design and modeling and covers solved, complete examples on cutting-edge practical applications, such as micro-electro-mechanical systems, actuators, and innovations in energy conversion systems