students, practicing engineers and physicists is enhanced by an excellent writing style with nice historical highlights and a clear and consistent notation throughout. Modest presents radiative heat transfer and its interactions with other modes of heat transfer in a coherent and integrated manner emphasizing the fundamentals. Numerous worked examples, a large number of problems, many based on real world situations, and an up-to-date bibliography make the book especially suitable for independent study.Most complete text in the field of radiative heat transferMany worked examples and end-of-chapter problemsLarge number of computer codes (in Fortran and C++), ranging from basic problem solving aids to sophisticated research toolsCovers experimental methods

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