Convection in Porous Media

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 1-35

3. Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 37-55

4. Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 57-84

5. Forced Convection

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 85-160

6. External Natural Convection

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 161-239

7. Internal Natural Convection: Heating from Below

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 241-361

8. Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 363-437

9. Mixed Convection

   • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

   Pages 439-471

10. Double-Diffusive Convection

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

    Pages 473-537

11. Convection with Change of Phase

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

    Pages 539-593

12. Geophysical Aspects

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

    Pages 595-628

13. Back Matter

    Pages 629-988

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This updated edition of a widely admired text provides a user-friendly introduction to the field that requires only routine mathematics. The book starts with the elements of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, and covers a wide range of applications from fibrous insulation and catalytic reactors to geological strata, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal reservoirs, and the storage of heat-generating materials. As the standard reference in the field, this book will be essential to researchers and practicing engineers, while remaining an accessible introduction for graduate students and others entering the field. The new edition features 2700 new references covering a number of rapidly expanding fields, including the heat transfer properties of nanofluids and applications involving local thermal non-equilibrium and microfluidic effects.

• Convection in Porous Media Book
• External Natural Convection Porous Medium
• Forced Convection Porous Medium
• Heat Transfer Porous Medium
• Mass Transfer Porous Medium
• Nanofluidics Convection
• Radiative Transfer in Cellular Porous Media
• quantitative geology

• Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  Donald A. Nield

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

  Adrian Bejan

Following five years of service in the Royal New Zealand Navy, Donald Nield has held an appointment at the University of Auckland since 1962, the first 24 years in the Department of Mathematics and the remainder in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is currently an Honorary Academic. He holds the degrees of BD (Otago), MSc (NZ), MA (Cambridge) and PhD (Auckland). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Transport in Porous Media.

Adrian Bejan earned all his degrees at M.I.T.: B.S. (1971, Honors Course), M.S. (1972, Honors Course) and Ph.D. (1975). His work is in engineering science, applied physics, and the Constructal Law of physics, which governs organization and evolution in nature. He is the author of 30 books and over 600 peer-refereed journal articles. In 2001 he was ranked among the 100 most-cited authors in all Engineering worldwide. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, and an honorary member of ASME. He was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.

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