本书按国家教委颁发的《大学英语专业阅读阶段的教学基本要求》规定组织编写的专业英语教材。本册内容包括工程热力学、流体力学、传热学、燃气概况等。全书安排16个单元，每单元除正课文外，还配有两篇阅读材料，均配有必要的注释。正课文还配有词汇表和练习，书后配有总词汇表、参考译文和练习答案。本书供本专业学生三年级上半学期使用，也可供有关专业人员自学英语参考。

UNIT ONE
Text Basic Concepts and Definitions
Reading Material A Thermodynamic Systems
Reading Material B Pressure
UNIT TWO
Text Application of the Principles of Thermodynamics to Steady-Flow Components of Engineering Systems
Reading Material A Power and Enthalpy
Reading Material B The First Law of Thermodynamics
UNIT THREE
Text Equations of State
Reading Material A Van Der Waals Equation of State
Reading Material B Equilibrium
UNIT FOUR
Text The Ideal Basic Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycle
Reading Material A Probability and Entropy
Reading Material B Entropy and the Third Law
UNIT FIVE
Text Variation of Pressure in A Static Fluid
Reading Material A Viscosity
Reading Material B Compressible and Incompressible Fluids
UNIT SIX
Text Hydraulic Grade Line and Energy Line
Reading Material A Eulerian and Lagrangian Flow Descriptions
Reading Material B Static, Stagnation (total), and Dynamic Pressure
UNIT SEVEN
Text Incompressible, Steady and Uniform Turbulent Flow in Circular Cross-section Pipes
Reading Material A Laminar and Turbulent Flow
Reading Material B Pipe Networks
UNIT EIGHT
Text Conduction
Reading Material A General Characteristics
Reading Material B Transient Heat Flow
UNIT NINE
Text Definition of Similitude
Reading Material A Comments about Dimensional Analysis
Reading Material B Reynolds Number and Similarity
UNIT TEN
Text Natural Convection
Reading Material A Forced Convection
Reading Material B Convection
UNIT ELEVEN
Text Drag of Three-Dimensional Bodies (Incompressible Flow)
Reading Material A Lift and Drag Concepts
Reading Material B Boundary-layer Separation and Pressure Drag
UNIT TWELVE
Text Actual Radiation
Reading Material A Radiation in Gases
Reading Material B Radiation
UNIT THIRTEEN
Text Categories of Compressible Flow
Reading Material A Effect of Flow Cross Section Area Variations
Reading Material B Converging-diverging Duct Flow
UNIT FOURTEEN
Text Eddy Diffusivity and Application to Turbulent Flow
Reading Material A Mean Temperature Differences for Parallel Flow and Counterflow Heat Exchangers
Reading Material B Finned-Tube Heat Transfer
UNIT FIFTEEN
Text Centrifugal Pumps and Fans
Reading Material A Pump and the Pipe System
Reading Material B Cavitation
UNIT SIXTEEN
Text Manufactured Gases
Reading Material A Gaseous Fuels
Reading Material B The Future of Plastic Pipe at Higher Pressures
Appendix Ⅰ Vocabulary
Appendix Ⅱ Translation for Reference
Appendix Ⅲ Key to Exercises