Essentials of Heat and Fluid Flow in Porous Media

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4665-7108-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

Knowledge of heat and fluid flow through porous media finds extensive applications in several engineering devices spanning four major divisions: mechanical, civil, chemical, and bioengineering. This textbook fills the knowledge-gap between available research monographs in porous media and basic thermo-fluids courses required to understand such monographs. Coverage includes fluid flow, conduction, convection, and radiation in porous media as well as porous medium aspects of biological systems. The book includes end-of-chapter problems and an appendix of useful convection correlations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Narasimhan, Arunn

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Mechanische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Technische Thermodynamik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Basic ConceptsPorous Medium DefinitionPorosityPercolation and TortuosityVolume Averaging ProcedureHeat Conduction in Porous MediaIntroductionPorous Medium Energy EquationEffective Stagnant Thermal ConductivityUnsteady Heat Conduction AspectsHeat Generation EffectsLocal Thermal Non-Equilibrium EffectsFluid Flow through Porous MediaHistorical Overview and Darcy LawPermeability and Form CoefficientViscometry and PermeametryProtocol for Permeability MeasurementFlow TransitionBrinkman EffectGeneralized Momentum EquationHydrodynamic DispersionAdvanced TopicsIntroduction to Turbulent FlowForced Convection through Porous MediumEnergy balance under flowForced Convection in Porous Medium over a Flat PlateForced Convection in Porous Medium ChannelOther Forced Convection ConfigurationsTransient EffectsHeat Transfer Enhancement AspectsNatural Convection through Porous MediumBasic ProblemNatural Convection Boundary LayersNatural Convection inside Porous EnclosuresMixed and Double-Diffusive ConvectionPorous Medium Aspects of Biological SystemsPorous Medium Modelling in Bio-mass TransportPorous Medium Modelling in Bio-heat TransportBio-ConvectionRadiation Heat Transfer in Porous MediumThe Radiative Transfer Equation (R TE)Radiative Property MeasurementSolving the RTECoupling ofRTE with other Heat Transfer ModesAdvanced TopicsBi-disperse and Fractal Porous MediaTwo-phase Flow through Porous MediaVariable Viscosity Porous Medium FlowsUpscaling MethodologyApplications in ManufacturingCombustion in Inert Porous MediaSuggested ReadingBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Arunn Narasimhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His major research interests for the past ten years are heat and fluid flow in porous media and biological systems. His publications include six invited book chapters (two in the Handbook of Porous Media, Ed. Vafai), two invited review articles and over fifty peer reviewed research articles in international journals.