Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media
By: by M. Kaviany
Series: Mechanical Engineering Series; Mechanical Engineering Series
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9781468404142; 9781468404128
Subjects: Thermodynamics; Physics
Description: Although the empirical treatment of fluid flow and heat transfer in porous media is over a century old, only in the last three decades has the transport in these heterogeneous systems been addressed in detail. So far, single-phase flows in porous media have been treated or at least formulated satisfactorily, while the subject of two-phase flow and the related heat-transfer in porous media is still in its infancy. This book identifies the principles of transport in porous media and compares the avalaible predictions based on theoretical treatments of various transport mechanisms with the existing experimental results. The theoretical treatment is based on the volume-averaging of the momentum and energy equations with the closure conditions necessary for obtaining solutions. While emphasizing a basic understanding of heat transfer in porous media, this book does not ignore the need for predictive tools; whenever a rigorous theoretical treatment of a phenomena is not avaliable, semi-empirical and empirical treatments are given.
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