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Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media

From Bioengineering and Microelectronics to Nanotechnology

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Peter Vadász

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A

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  • First major reference work on this topic
  • First major reference to cover theory and applications from bioengineering and microelectronics to nanotechnology
  • Articles by top experts in the field
  • Multidisciplinary–touches on most areas of modern applications of heat and mass transfer in porous media
  • Lists extensive bibliographies with up-to-date references

Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 22)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Dual-Phase-Lagging and Porous-Medium Heat Conduction Processes

    • Liqiu Wang, Mingtian Xu, Xiaohao Wei
    Pages 1-37

  3. Heat Transfer Analysis Under Local Thermal Non-equilibrium Conditions

    • A. Haji-Sheikh, W.J. Minkowycz
    Pages 39-62

  4. General Heterogeneity Effects on the Onset of Convection in a Porous Medium

    • D.A. Nield
    Pages 63-84

  5. The Instability of Unsteady Boundary Layers in Porous Media

    • D.A.S. Rees, A. Selim, J.P. Ennis-King
    Pages 85-110

  6. Analytical Transition to Weak Turbulence and Chaotic Natural Convection in Porous Media

    • Peter Vadász
    Pages 111-132

  7. Natural Convection in Gravity-Modulated Porous Layers

    • Saneshan Govender
    Pages 133-148

  8. Thermal Vibrational Convection in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Pure or Binary Fluid

    • Yazdan Pedramrazi, Marie-Catherine Charrier-Mojtabi, Abdelkader Mojtabi
    Pages 149-179

  9. New Developments in Bioconvection in Porous Media: Bioconvection Plumes, Bio-Thermal Convection, and Effects of Vertical Vibration

    • A.V. Kuznetsov
    Pages 181-217

  10. Macromolecular Transport in Arterial Walls: Current and Future Directions

    • K. Khanafer, K. Vafai
    Pages 219-235

  11. Flow and Heat Transfer in Biological Tissues: Application of Porous Media Theory

    • Khalil Khanafer, Abdalla AlAmiri, Ioan Pop, Joseph L. Bull
    Pages 237-259

  12. Metal Foams as Passive Thermal Control Systems

    • Shankar Krishnan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Suresh V. Garimella
    Pages 261-282

  13. Nanofluid Suspensions and Bi-composite Media as Derivatives of Interface Heat Transfer Modeling in Porous Media

    • Peter Vadász
    Pages 283-326

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 327-328
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This book is a synthesis of emerging topics in heat and mass transfer in porous media. It brings together some of the world leaders in research on transport p- nomena in porous media to present the state of the art of its theory as well as the applicationofthetheoryinemerging?eldssuchasbioengineering,microelectronics and nanotechnology. The well renowned scientists presenting their ?ndings in the review chapters presented are not only among the best world leaders in their ?eld, they also capture the research that is undertaken in all the parts of the globe, from the Far East (Hong-Kong), the Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand and South Africa) to Europe and America. The book is separated into two parts. The ?rst presents the state of the art of the theory of heat and mass transfer in porous media and can be used in both the traditional (underground ?ow, ?ltering and reservoir engineering) as well as in the more recent emerging applications. The second part deals with emerging topics and applications of the theory to bioengineering, microelectronics, and nanotechnology. Traditionally,thetopicoftransportphenomenainporousmediawasalmostexc- sivelyreservedtothe?eldofunderground?ow(water,oil,gas,etc.)and?ltering.With some singular exceptions on applications to drying processes of fabric, the devel- ment of the theory of transport phenomena in porous media was historically driven by the needs of technologies linked to reservoir engineering or civil engineering. A turningpointinthisdevelopmentwasreachedintheearlypartofthesecondhalfinthe twentycenturywhenspecialattentiontoheattransferinporousmediayieldedan- ceedingexpansionofinterest.Thisdevelopmentcontinuedinthetwenty?rstcentury and reached recently such an impressive use in a diverse collection oftechnological applications that created the motivation behind the preparation of this book.

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  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A

    Peter Vadász

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