Preface

Mechanical engineering is one of the largest engineering disciplines that present tangible solutions for whole humanity's prosperity and the quality of life. Rapidly increasing demands have been increasing its importance more and more. The many areas within the scope of mechanical engineering include transportation, power generation, energy conversion, machine design, manufacturing and automation, the control of system. The purpose of the *Mechanical Engineering* book is to present to the engineers in industrial areas and to the academic environments the state-of-to-art information on the most important topics of modern mechanical engineering.

This Mechanical Engineering book is organized into the following five parts:


The first part of this book starts with a collection of articles on the power transmission systems. This section introduces modeling of transmission parameter, the performance and simulation, and dynamics analysis of gearboxes. Section two collects articles about the manufacturing processes and system analysis such as welding, plastic forming, investigation of mechanical properties, and vibration analysis. The third section presents the studies related to thermo-fluid science and it includes topics such as fuel reforming, steam turbines used distributed power production, numerical modeling of wet steam flow, collapse behavior of cavitation bubble, and visualization of cavitation flow. The subsequent fourth part provides a platform to share knowledge about the simulation and computer applications in mechanical engineering. Lastly, section five is a collection of articles that investigate modern education methods and engineering projects in mechanical engineering.

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all of the authors for their contributions. The successful completion of the book *Mechanical Engineering* has been

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the result of the cooperation of many people. I would like to thank the Publishing Process Manager Ms. Leda Bace for her support during the publishing process, as well as Mr. Metin Ertufan for inviting me to be the editor of this book.
