Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

✍ Scribed by Derek B. Ingham and Iaon Pop (Eds.)

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research into thermal convection in porous media has substantially increased during recent years due to its numerous practical applications. These problems have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from many very diversified disciplines, such as applied mathematics, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering, geothermal physics and food science. Thus, there is a wealth of information now available on convective processes in porous media and it is therefore appropriate and timely to undertake a new critical evaluation of this contemporary information. Transport Phenomena in Porous Media contains 17 chapters and represents the collective work of 27 of the world's leading experts, from 12 countries, in heat transfer in porous media. The recent intensive research in this area has substantially raised the expectations for numerous new practical applications and this makes the book a most timely addition to the existing literature. It includes recent major developments in both the fundamentals and applications, and provides valuable information to researchers dealing with practical problems in thermal convection in porous media. Each chapter of the book describes recent developments in the highly advanced analytical, numerical and experimental techniques which are currently being employed and discussions of possible future developments are provided. Such reviews not only result in the consolidation of the currently available information, but also facilitate the identification of new industrial applications and research topics which merit further work.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface, Pages vii-viii, Derek B. Ingham, Ioan Pop
The fundamental theory of flow through permeable media from Darcy to turbulence, Pages 1-30, J.L. Lage
Transport phenomena in enclosed porous cavities, Pages 31-56, C.K. Chen, S.W. Hsiao
Heat conduction, Pages 57-76, Ping Cheng, Chin-Tsau Hsu
Onset of oscillatory convection in a porous medium, Pages 77-102, S. Kimura
Thermal nonequilibrium forced convection in porous media, Pages 103-129, A.V. Kuznetsov
Mathematical models for heat and mass transport in geothermal systems, Pages 131-154, R. McKibbin
Natural convection in a horizontal porous annulus, Pages 155-178, M.C. Charrier-Mojtabi, A. Mojtabi
A unified treatment of darcy-forchheimer boundary-layer flows, Pages 179-204, A. Nakayama
Transient convection heat transfer in a porous medium: External flows, Pages 205-231, I. Pop, D.B. Ingham, J.H. Merkin
Thermal boundary-layer instabilities in porous media: A critical review, Pages 233-259, D.A.S. Rees
Effects of anisotropy on convective flow through porous media, Pages 261-283, L. Storesletten
Free convection in rotating porous media, Pages 285-312, Peter Vadasz
Non-Darcian effects in confined forced convective flows, Pages 313-329, K. Vafai, A. Amiri
Natural convection in enclosures filled with anisotropic porous media, Pages 331-356, P. Vasseur, L. Robillard
Internal natural, forced and mixed convection in fluid-saturated porous medium, Pages 357-382, B.X. Wang, J.H. Du, X.F. Peng
Modeling multiphase flow and transport in porous media, Pages 383-410, C.Y. Wang
Convective heat flow from suddenly heated surfaces embedded in porous media, Pages 411-438, R. Bradean, P.J. Heggs, D.B. Ingham, I. Pop
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