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About
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EES
Products
EES
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Why
EES?
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About the Authors
The motivation for EES rose from
experience in teaching mechanical engineering
thermodynamics and heat transfer. To learn the
material in these courses, students must work
problems. However, students spend much of the
time and effort required to solve the problems
looking up property information and solving the
appropriate equations. Once the students are familiar
with the use of property tables, further use of
the tables does not contribute to their grasp
of the subject; nor does algebra.
The time and effort required to
do problems in the conventional manner detracts
from learning of the subject matter. It forces
students to focus on the order in which the equations
are solved (which really does not matter), and
it makes parametric studies too labor-intensive.
Interesting practical problems with implicit solutions
cannot be assigned because of their mathematical
complexity.
EES was designed to use intuitive
commands that could be mastered quickly by a novice
user, yet contain extensive and sophisticated
capabilities for practicing engineers and researchers.
EES 's large built-in data bank of thermodynamic
and transport properties is helpful in solving
problems in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and
heat transfer. While the primary goal of EES was
to facilitate students' mastery of these subjects
by eliminating the mundane aspects of their homework
problems, EES can be used for many engineering
applications, including practical problems encountered
by the practicing engineer.
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William A. Beckman is the Ouweneel-Bascom
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his
BSME from the University of Michigan in 1958, his
MS from Michigan in 1960, and his PhD from Michigan
in 1964.
Professor Beckman's interests
include solar energy, building energy analysis,
and radiation heat transfer. His research analyzes
complex energy systems through computer simulations.
He brings research results into the classroom
through courses in general heat transfer, thermodynamics
and solar energy applications.
He is the coauthor of the textbook
Solar Energy Thermal Processes with Professor
J. A. Duffie, also of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Sanford
A. Klein is the Ouweneel-Bascom Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He earned his BSChE from the University of Illinois
in 1972, his MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1973, and his PhD from Wisconsin-Madison in 1976.
His areas of interest include solar energy applications,
thermodynamics, heat transfer, conservation, and
educational software.
He developed the F-Chart method
for sizing solar heating systems, and the TRNSYS
simulation program widely used in simulations
of solar processes. He is the co-author of more
than 120 publications relating to the analysis
of energy systems, and is a member and Fellow
of the International Solar Energy Society and
the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air Conditioning Engineers.
Professor Klein is also involved
in developing engineering computer tools for both
instruction and research. He is the primary author
of EES, as well as author of the thermodynamics
instructional program, CP/Thermo, and the finite
element program, FEHT.
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