Study of heat transfer?

Question

When you talk about convection, radiation, conduction; heat transfer and how heat behaves; like in thunderstorm formation, evaporation of heat through sweat and inversion layers; this is a type of study on heat physics.

What is the study known as, and where can I obtain, highly sophisticated scientific information on such?

Sabre

Answer 1

thermodynamics (but it's a larger field than just heat propagation, so there might be things in there you don't care about)

you'll have to go see diferent fields too, like meteorology, if you want to know what happens in a thunderstorm.
If you get deep enough in science, you'll see that all topics are interelated in a way or an other, so you'll need some kind of general scientific background to understand the details.

the associated link in the wikipedia :

Answer 2

This study is known as "heat transfer" and forms part of the undergraduate study of mechanical engineering. If you wish to know how heat interacts with matter then you are looking at 'thermodynamics". But I feel you require information about "Heat Transfer".

In heat tranfer we are interested in rates of heat tranfer, heat conductivity of materials, Temperature distributions or or profiles in a body and so on.
On the cutting edge of Heat Tranfer you model temperature distributions in a body using a tool called "Finite Element Analysis"
You can always find a good book on amazon. Contact me if you want a book on General Physics.

Answer 3

Thermodynamics, perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics

wikipedia is a starting point only. There are often some useful links at the bottom.

Answer 4

Name of the subject is thermodynamics; it is a mechanical engineering subject a part of heat engines .

Answer 5

the study which deals with heat is called thermodynamics the good book for it is attkins phisical chemistry it has very detailed description of themodynamics.

Answer 6

Heat and thermodynamics
u can go to www.google.com to get info

Answer 7

Try wikipedia! it`s best source for anything I suppose

Answer 8

thermodynamics..
thermos-heat
dynamic-moving,