Convection in Porous Media
By: by Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
Contributors: Bejan, Adrian
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9781475730357; 9781475730333
Subjects: Engineering
Description: This book provides a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, such as fibrous insulation, geological strata, and catalytic reactors. The presentation is self-contained, requiring only routine classical mathematics and the basic elements of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. It will thus be of use not only to researchers and practicing engineers as a review and reference, but also to graduate students and others just entering the field. Applications discussed include such disparate topics as building insulation, energy storage, nuclear-waste disposal, coal and grain storage, chemical reactor engineering, groundwater flow, and stability of snow to avalanches. In this second edition the authors have added: discussions of compact heat exchangers and of tree networks; new material on external natural convection; descriptions of the effects of magnetic fields, of rotations, and of periodic heating; discussions of inclined gradients and of the solidification of alloys; and an extensive treatment of two -phase flows. An extensive list of references (emphasizing recent experimetnal work) provides access to the current research literature.
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Table of contents: title: Prefaces; title: Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium; title: Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium; title: Mass Transfer Through a Porous Medium Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows; title: Forced Convection; title: External Natural Convection; title: Internal Natural Convection: Heating From Below; title: Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side; title: Mixed Convection; title: Double Diffusive Convection; title: Convection with Change of Phase; title: Geophysical Aspects; title: References.