Handbook of Porous Media

Kambiz Vafai9780824788865, 0-8247-8886-9, 0-8427-8886-9

“Presents the most important and up-to-date research related to heat transfer in porous media, focusing on practical applications of the latest studies to engineering products and procedures. Includes theoretical models of fluid flow, capillary effects, application of fractal and percolation characterizing porous materials, multiphase flow and heat transfer, turbulent flow and heat transfer, improved measurement and flow visualization techniques, and enhanced design correlations.”

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 4
Contents……Page 12
Contributors……Page 16
Theoretical Analysis of Transport in Porous Media……Page 20
Capillary and Viscous Effects in Porous Media……Page 72
Characterization of Geology of, and Flow and Transport in, Field-scale Porous Media……Page 132
Heat Conduction in Porous Media……Page 190
Forced Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media……Page 220
Analytical Studies of Forced Convection in Partly Porous Configurations……Page 288
Convective Boundary Layers in Porous Media: External Flows……Page 332
Porous Media Enhanced Forced Convection Fundamentals and Applications……Page 376
Flow and Thermal Convection in Rotating Porous Media……Page 414
Numerical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media Using Microscopic Structures……Page 460
Natural Convective Heat Transfer in Porous-Media-Filled Enclosures……Page 508
The Stability of Darcy-Benard Convection……Page 540
Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media……Page 578
Mixed Convection in Saturated Porous Media……Page 624
Radiative Transfer in Porous Media……Page 682
Weak Turbulence and Transitions to Chaos in Porous Media……Page 718
Transport Phenomena in Porous Media: Modeling the Drying Process……Page 774
Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Hydrocarbons……Page 806
Heat Transfer During Mold Filling in Liquid Composite Manufacturing Processes……Page 864
Index……Page 912