Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media
The study of heat and fluid flow in fluid-saturated porous media is applicable in a very wide range of fields, with practical applications in modern industry and environmental areas, such as nuclear waste management, the construction of thermal insulators, geothermal power, grain storage and many more. The vast amount of theoretical and experimental work reported has attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers, applied mathematicians, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and...
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The study of heat and fluid flow in fluid-saturated porous media is applicable in a very wide range of fields, with practical applications in modern industry and environmental areas, such as nuclear waste management, the construction of thermal insulators, geothermal power, grain storage and many more. The vast amount of theoretical and experimental work reported has attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers, applied mathematicians, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineers, physicists, food scientists, medical researchers, etc. This book covers the full range of theoretical, computational and experimental approaches to the subject, grouped into reviews of: fundamentals, stability, anisotropy, permeability and non-equilibrium, applications, and experimental porous media.
PrefaceContributing authors1Governing equations for laminar flows through porous media12Fundamentals of scale analysis, heatline visualization, and the intersection of asymptotes133Modeling the flow through porous media254Techniques for solving the boundary-layer equations435Some boundary-layer problems in convective flow in porous media656Compressible fluid dynamics in porous media by the boundary element method937Laplacian decomposition of steady free convection in porous media1198Genetic algorithms and their application to the identification of hydraulic properties of rocks1319Turbulent heat and mass transfer in porous media15710The mixed convection number for porous media flow16911Sidewall heating in shallow cavities near the density maximum18312Active control of the onset of convection in porous medium by mechanical vibration19513Onset of oscillatory and stationary double-diffusive convection within a tilted porous enclosure20914On stability analysis of Soret convection within a horizontal porous layer22115Nonlinear vortex instabilities in free convective boundary layers in porous media23516Thermal non-equilibrium free convection in a cavity filled with a non-Darcy porous medium24717Entropy generation for free and forced convection in a porous cavity and a porous channel25918Natural convection in anisotropic heterogeneous porous medium27119Effects of anisotropy on convection in horizontal and inclined porous layers28520Contribution of the thermal and molecular diffusion to convection in a vertical porous cavity30721Towards a physically based theory of high-concentration-gradient dispersion in porous media32122Designed porous media33723Modeling single-phase flows in micro heat exchangers35124Axial and radial porous burners36725A porous medium model to investigate the red cell distribution effect on alveolar respiration38126Ionic contamination and decontamination of porous media40927Porous media and filtration41928Experimental study of forced convection through microporous enhanced heat sinks43329Two- and three-fluid retention in a porous medium for toluene by gamma-ray attenuation45330Thermodynamics of fluids in mesoporous media46531Expansion scaling and elastic moduli of gas-fluidized magnetizable beds47732Porous media theory as basis for model of fouling layers formation in heat exchangers491
