Handbook of Porous Media, Second Edition
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Over the last three decades, advances in modeling flow, heat, and mass transfer through a porous medium have dramatically transformed engineering applications. Comprehensive and cohesive, Handbook of Porous Media, Second Edition presents a compilation of research related to heat and mass transfer including the development of practical applications for analysis and design of engineering devices and systems involving porous media.
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Completely revised, updated, and reviewed by experts in the field, each chapter includes, whenever applicable, a discussion of the pertinent aspects of experimental work or numerical techniques. Generously illustrated with 262 black and white illustrations, 15 tables, and 1,865 equations, the book is a rigorous and thorough working reference.
Table of Contents
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND MODELING OF POROUS MEDIA
Coupled, Non-linear Mass Transfer and Heterogeneous Reaction in Porous Media, M. Quintard and S. Whitaker
Dynamic Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media, C. Hsu
Dispersion in Porous Media, A. Liu and J.H. Masliyah
FORCED CONVECTION
Forced Convection in Porous Medium: Thermal Development and Effects of Transverse Heterogeneity, D.A. Nield and A.V. Kuzentsov
Variable Viscosity Forced Convection in Porous Medium Channels, A. Narashimhan and J.L. Lage
Three dimensional Flow and Heat Transfer within Highly Antisotropic Porous Media (Numerical Determination of Permeability Tensor, Inertial Tensor and Directional Heat Transfer Coefficient), F. Kuwahara and A. Nakayama
FLOW INDUCED BY NATURAL CONVECTION AND VIBRATION AND DOUBLE DIFFUSE CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIA
Double Diffusive Convection in Porous Medium, A. Mojtabi and A. Charrie-Mojtabi
Influence of Vibrations on the Onset of the Thermo-convection in Porous Medium, A. Mojtabi and A. Charrie-Mojtabi
VISCOUS DISSIPATION IN POROUS MEDIA
Effect of Viscous Dissipation on the Flow in Fluid Saturated Porous Media, E. Magyari, D.A.S. Rees, and B. Keller
TURBULENCE IN POROUS MEDIA
Mathematical Modeling and Applications of Turbulent Heat Transfer in Porous Media, M.J.S. de Lemos
PARTICLE MIGRATION AND DEPOSITION IN POROUS MEDIA
Modeling Particle Migration and Deposition in Porous Media by Parallel Pathways with Exchange, F. Civan and V. Nguyen
Analytical Models for Porous Media Impairment by Particles in Rectilinear and Radial Flows, F. Civan and M. L. Rasmussen
GEOTHERMAL, MANUFACTURING, COMBUSTION, AND BIOCONVECTION APPLICATIONS IN POROUS MEDIA
Modeling Heat and Mass Transport Processes in Geothermal Systems, R. McKibbin
Transport Phenomena in Liquid Composites Molding Processes, K. Hsiao and S.G. Advani
Combustion and Heat Transfer in Inert Porous Media, R. Viskanta
Modeling Bioconvection in Porous Media, A.V. Kuzentsov
Parameter Identification within a Porous Medium Using Genetic Algorithms, D.B. Ingham
