Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media

1. Contribution of the Thermal and Molecular Diffusion to Convection in a Vertical Porous Cavity

   • C. G. Jiang, M. Z. Saghir, M. Kawaji, K. Ghorayeb

   Pages 307-320

2. Towards a Physically Based Theory of High-Concentration-Gradient Dispersion in Porous Media

   • R. Schotting, A. J. Landman

   Pages 321-336

3. Designed Porous Media

   • A. Bejan

   Pages 337-349

4. Modeling Single-Phase Flows in Micro Heat Exchangers

   • E. Mamut

   Pages 351-366

5. Axial and Radial Porous Burners

   • A. A. Mohamad

   Pages 367-379

6. A Porous Medium Model to Investigate the Red Cell Distribution Effect on Alveolar Respiration

   • J. L. Lage, A. A. Merrikh, V. V. Kulish

   Pages 381-407

7. Ionic Contamination and Decontamination of Porous Media

   • S. Lorente, F. Frizon, A. Khitab, J. P. Ollivier

   Pages 409-417

8. Porous Media and Filtration

   • A. F. Miguel

   Pages 419-431

9. Experimental Study of Forced Convection Through Microporous Enhanced Heat Sinks

   • J. L. Lage, A. Narasimhan, D. C. Porneala, D. C. Price

   Pages 433-452

10. Two- and Three-Fluid Retention in a Porous Medium for Toluene by Gamma-Ray Attenuation

    • A. F. Baytas

    Pages 453-464

11. Thermodynamics of Fluids in Mesoporous Media

    • A. H. Reis

    Pages 465-475

12. Expansion Scaling and Elastic Moduli of Gas-Fluidized Magnetizable Beds

    • J. Y. Hristov

    Pages 477-489

13. Porous Media Theory as Basis for Model of Fouling Layers Formation in Heat Exchangers

    • T. V. Morosuk

    Pages 491-507

Heat and fluid flow in fluid-saturated porous media has become increas­ ingly more attractive to researchers and thus it has become a very pro­ ductive field for many researchers and practical engineers in very diverse range of fields. The great interest in the topic stems from its widespread number of different practical applications in modern industries and in many environmental issues, such as nuclear waste management, build­ ing thermal insulators, geothermal power plants, grain storage, etc. In building sciences and thermal insulation engineering, an appreciable in­ sulating effect has been derived by placing porous material in the gap between the cavity walls and multishield structures of nuclear reactors between the pressure vessel and the reactor. Geophysical applications include modeling of the spread of pollutants (e. g. radioactive mater­ ial), water movements in geothermal reservoirs, enhanced recovery of petroleum reservoirs, etc. These, and many other, important practical applications have resulted in a rapid expansion of research in the general area of porous media and thus generated a vast amount of both theor­ etical and experimental research work. It has attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from many varying disciplines, such as applied mathematics, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering, geothermal physics, food science, medicine, etc. This book contains some of the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media that was held in Neptun-Olimp, Constanta, Black Sea, Romania on 9-20 June, 2003.

• Vibration
• algorithm
• algorithms
• construction
• genetic algorithms
• layers
• model
• modeling
• stability
• thermodynamics
• visualization

• Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  Derek B. Ingham

• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, USA

  Adrian Bejan

• Center for Advanced Engineering Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

  Eden Mamut

• Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cluj, Cluj, Romania

  Ioan Pop

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