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Summary
Summary
Knowledge of heat and fluid flow through porous media finds extensive applications in several engineering devices spanning four major divisions: mechanical, civil, chemical, and bioengineering. This textbook fills the knowledge-gap between available research monographs in porous media and basic thermo-fluids courses required to understand such monographs. Coverage includes fluid flow, conduction, convection, and radiation in porous media as well as porous medium aspects of biological systems. The book includes end-of-chapter problems and an appendix of useful convection correlations.
Author Notes
Dr. Arunn Narasimhanis an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His major research interests for the past ten years are heat and fluid flow in porous media and biological systems. His publications include six invited book chapters (two in the Handbook of Porous Media, Ed. Vafai), two invited review articles and over fifty peer reviewed research articles in international journals.
Table of Contents
| Basic Concepts |
| Porous Medium Definition |
| Porosity |
| Percolation and Tortuosity |
| Volume Averaging Procedure |
| Heat Conduction in Porous Media |
| Introduction |
| Porous Medium Energy Equation |
| Effective Stagnant Thermal Conductivity |
| Unsteady Heat Conduction Aspects |
| Heat Generation Effects |
| Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Effects |
| Fluid Flow through Porous Media |
| Historical Overview and Darcy Law |
| Permeability and Form Coefficient |
| Viscometry and Permeametry |
| Protocol for Permeability Measurement |
| Flow Transition |
| Brinkman Effect |
| Generalized Momentum Equation |
| Hydrodynamic Dispersion |
| Advanced Topics |
| Introduction to Turbulent Flow |
| Forced Convection through Porous Medium |
| Energy balance under flow |
| Forced Convection in Porous Medium over a Flat Plate |
| Forced Convection in Porous Medium Channel |
| Other Forced Convection Configurations |
| Transient Effects |
| Heat Transfer Enhancement Aspects |
| Natural Convection through Porous Medium |
| Basic Problem |
| Natural Convection Boundary Layers |
| Natural Convection inside Porous Enclosures |
| Mixed and Double-Diffusive Convection |
| Porous Medium Aspects of Biological Systems |
| Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-mass Transport |
| Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-heat Transport |
| Bio-Convection |
| Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Medium |
| The Radiative Transfer Equation (R TE) |
| Radiative Property Measurement |
| Solving the RTE |
| Coupling ofRTE with other Heat Transfer Modes |
| Advanced Topics |
| Bi-disperse and Fractal Porous Media |
| Two-phase Flow through Porous Media |
| Variable Viscosity Porous Medium Flows |
| Upscaling Methodology |
| Applications in Manufacturing |
| Combustion in Inert Porous Media |
| Suggested Reading |
| Bibliography |
