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Author Nield, Donald A., author.

Title Convection in porous media / Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
Edition Fifth edition
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 988 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Nomenclature; Chapter 1: Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Porosity; 1.3 Seepage Velocity and the Equation of Continuity; 1.4 Momentum Equation: Darcyś Law; 1.4.1 Darcyś Law: Permeability; 1.4.2 Deterministic Models Leading to Darcyś Law; 1.4.3 Statistical Models Leading to Darcyś Law; 1.5 Extensions of Darcyś Law; 1.5.1 Acceleration and Other Inertial Effects
1.5.2 Quadratic Drag: Forchheimerś Equation1.5.3 Brinkmanś Equations; 1.5.4 Non-Newtonian Fluid; 1.6 Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions; 1.7 Effects of Porosity Variation; 1.8 Turbulence in Porous Media; 1.9 Fractured Media, Deformable Media, and Complex Porous Structures; 1.10 Bidisperse Porous Media; Chapter 2: Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium; 2.1 Energy Equation: Simple Case; 2.2 Energy Equation: Extensions to More Complex Situations; 2.2.1 Overall Thermal Conductivity of a Porous Medium; 2.2.2 Effects of Pressure Changes and Viscous Dissipation
2.2.3 Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium2.2.4 Thermal Dispersion; 2.2.5 Cellular Porous Media; 2.2.6 Heat Wave Theory; 2.3 Oberbeck-Boussinesq Approximation; 2.4 Thermal Boundary Conditions; 2.5 Hele-Shaw Analogy; 2.6 Bioheat Transfer; 2.7 Other Approaches, Numerical Methods; Chapter 3: Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows; 3.1 Multicomponent Flow: Basic Concepts; 3.2 Mass Conservation in a Mixture; 3.3 Combined Heat and Mass Transfer; 3.4 Effects of a Chemical Reaction; 3.5 Multiphase Flow; 3.5.1 Conservation of Mass; 3.5.2 Conservation of Momentum
3.5.3 Conservation of Energy3.5.4 Summary: Relative Permeabilities; 3.6 Unsaturated Porous Media; 3.7 Electrodiffusion Through Porous Media; 3.8 Nanofluids; 3.8.1 Property Variations; 3.8.2 Processes Associated with the Smallness of Nanoparticles; 3.8.2.1 The Buongiorno Model; 3.8.2.2 Conservation Equations for a Nanofluid; 3.8.2.3 Conservation Equations for a Porous Medium Saturated by a Nanofluid; Chapter 4: Forced Convection; 4.1 Plane Wall with Prescribed Temperature; 4.2 Plane Wall with Constant Heat Flux; 4.3 Sphere and Cylinder: Boundary Layers
4.4 Point Source and Line Source: Thermal Wakes4.5 Confined Flow; 4.6 Transient Effects; 4.6.1 Scale Analysis; 4.6.2 Wall with Constant Temperature; 4.6.3 Wall with Constant Heat Flux; 4.6.4 Other Configurations; 4.7 Effects of Inertia and Thermal Dispersion: External Flow; 4.8 Effects of Boundary Friction and Porosity Variation: Exterior Flow; 4.9 Effects of Boundary Friction, Inertia, Porosity Variation, Thermal Dispersion, and Axial Conduction: Confined Flow; 4.10 Local Thermal Nonequilibrium; 4.11 Partly Porous Configurations; 4.12 Transversely Heterogeneous Channels and Pipes
Summary In its expanded 4th edition, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, with some 2,000 new references and coverage of current research in nanofluids, cellular porous materials, strong heterogeneity, pulsating flow and more
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 28, 2017)
Subject Porous materials -- Thermal properties.
Porous materials -- Permeability
Heat -- Convection.
Mass transfer.
Materials -- States of matter.
Geology & the lithosphere.
Catalysis.
Engineering thermodynamics.
Thermodynamics & heat.
Mechanics of fluids.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- Thermodynamics.
Heat -- Convection
Mass transfer
Porous materials -- Permeability
Porous materials -- Thermal properties
Form Electronic book
Author Bejan, Adrian, 1948- author.
ISBN 9783319495620
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3319495615
9783319495613