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Handbook of porous media / edited by Kambiz Vafai ; assistant editor, Hamid A. Hadim.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Porous materials--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Porous materials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (927 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marcel Dekker, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- General characteristics, modelling and geometric aspects of porous media; conduction in porous media; forced convection on porous media; natural and double-diffusive convection in porous media; mixed convection in porous media; radiative transfer in porous media; turbulence in porous media; drying, environmental and manufacturing applications in porous media.
- Contents:
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Theoretical Analysis of Transport in Porous Media
- 2 Capillary and Viscous Effects in Porous Media
- 3 Characterization of Geology of, and Flow and Transport in, Field-scale Porous Media
- 4 Heat Conduction in Porous Media
- 5 Forced Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media
- 6 Analytical Studies of Forced Convection in Partly Porous Configurations
- 7 Convective Boundary Layers in Porous Media: External Flows
- 8 Porous Media Enhanced Forced Convection Fundamentals and Applications
- 9 Flow and Thermal Convection in Rotating Porous Media
- 10 Numerical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media Using Microscopic Structures
- 11 Natural Convective Heat Transfer in Porous-Media-Filled Enclosures
- 12 The Stability of Darcy-Benard Convection
- 13 Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media
- 14 Mixed Convection in Saturated Porous Media
- 15 Radiative Transfer in Porous Media
- 16 Weak Turbulence and Transitions to Chaos in Porous Media
- 17 Transport Phenomena in Porous Media: Modeling the Drying Process
- 18 Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Hydrocarbons
- 19 Heat Transfer During Mold Filling in Liquid Composite Manufacturing Processes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610204052
- 0-585-39354-0
- 1-280-20405-2
- 0-203-90869-4
- OCLC:
- 49851561
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