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Convection in Porous Media

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Donald A. Nield

    1. Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. Adrian Bejan

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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 1-22

  3. Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 23-31

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

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 33-50

  5. Forced Convection

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 51-104

  6. External Natural Convection

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 105-174

  7. Internal Natural Convection: Heating from Below

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 175-260

  8. Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 261-319

  9. Mixed Convection

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 321-343

  10. Double-Diffusive Convection

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 345-378

  11. Convection with Change of Phase

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 379-430

  12. Geophysical Aspects

    • Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan
    Pages 431-451

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 453-546
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Papers on convection in porous media continue to be published at the rate of over 100 per year. This indication of the continued importance of the subject, together with the wide acceptance of the first edition, has encouraged us to prepare an expanded second edition. We have retained the basic structure and most of the text of the first edition. With space considerations in mind, we have been selective in our choice of references, but nevertheless there are over 600 new references. We also made an effort to highlight new conceptual developments and engineering applications. In the introductory material, we judged that Chapters 2 and 3 needed little alteration (though there is a new Section 2.6 on other approaches to the topic), but our improved understanding of the basic modeling of flow through a porous medium has led to a number of changes in Chapter 1, both within the old sections and by the addition of a section on turbulence in porous media, and a section on fractured media, deformable media, and complex porous structures. In Chapter 4, on forced convection, we have added major new sections on compact heat exchangers, on heatlines for visualizing convection, and on constructal tree networks for the geometric minimization of the resistance to volume-to-point flows in heterogeneous porous media.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 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

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