Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of porous media / edited by Kambiz Vafai ; assistant editor, Hamid A. Hadim.

Publication

New York : Marcel Dekker, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Vafai, K. (Kambiz)
• Hadim, Hamid A.

Description

xvii, 908 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Porous materials > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. General Characteristics, Modeling, and Geometric Aspects of Porous Media. 1. Theoretical Analysis of Transport in Porous Media / Michel Quintard and Stephen Whitaker. 2. Capillary and Viscous Effects in Porous Media / F. A. L. Dullien. 3. Characterization of Geology of, and Flow and Transport in, Field-Scale Porous Media: Application of Fractal and Percolation Concepts / Muhammad Sahimi -- Pt. II. Conduction in Porous Media. 4. Heat Conduction in Porous Media / Chin-Tsau Hsu -- Pt. III. Forced Convection in Porous Media. 5. Forced Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media / Guy Lauriat and Riad Ghafir. 6. Analytical Studies of Forced Convection in Partly Porous Configurations / A. V. Kuznetsov. 7. Convective Boundary Layers in Porous Media: External Flows / I. Pop and D. B. Ingham. 8. Porous Media Enhanced Forced Convection Fundamentals and Applications / Jose L. Lage and Arunn Narasimhan. 9. Flow and Thermal Convection in Rotating Porous Media / P. Vadasz.
• 10. Numerical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media Using Microscopic Structures / A. Nakayama and F. Kuwahara -- Pt. IV. Natural and Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media. 11. Natural Convective Heat Transfer in Porous-Media-Filled Enclosures / P. H. Oosthuizen. 12. The Stability of Darcy-Benard Convection / D. A. S. Rees. 13. Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media / Abdelkader Mojtabi and Marie-Catherine Charrier-Mojtabi -- Pt. V. Mixed Convection in Porous Media. 14. Mixed Convection in Saturated Porous Media / F. C. Lai -- Pt. VI. Radiative Transfer in Porous Media. 15. Radiative Transfer in Porous Media / John R. Howell -- Pt. VII. Turbulence in Porous Media. 16. Weak Turbulence and Transitions to Chaos in Porous Media / P. Vadasz -- Pt. VIII. Drying, Environmental, and Manufacturing Applications in Porous Media. 17. Transport Phenomena in Porous Media: Modeling the Drying Process / O. A. Plumb.
• 18. Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Hydrocarbons / V. K. Dhir. 19. Heat Transfer During Mold Filling in Liquid Composite Manufacturing Processes / Suresh G. Advani and Kuang-Ting Hsiao.

ISBN

0824788869 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00031591

OCLC

• 43977704
• ocm43977704
• SCSB-3997220

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries