Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Governing Equations for Laminar Flows Through Porous Media

   • D. B. Ingham

   Pages 1-11

3. Fundamentals of Scale Analysis, Heatline Visualization, and the Intersection of Asymptotes

   • A. Bejan

   Pages 13-24

4. Modeling the Flow Through Porous Media

   • H. I. Ene

   Pages 25-41

5. Techniques for Solving the Boundary-Layer Equations

   • S. D. Harris, D. B. Ingham

   Pages 43-64

6. Some Boundary-Layer Problems in Convective Flow in Porous Media

   • I. Pop

   Pages 65-91

7. Compressible Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media by the Boundary Element Method

   • L. Škerget, R. Jecl

   Pages 93-117

8. Laplacian Decomposition of Steady Free Convection in Porous Media

   • A. Curteanu, D. B. Ingham, L. Elliott, D. Lesnic

   Pages 119-129

9. Genetic Algorithms and their Application to the Identification of Hydraulic Properties of Rocks

   • N. S. Mera, D. B. Ingham, L. Elliott

   Pages 131-155

10. Turbulent Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media

    • M. J. S. de Lemos

    Pages 157-168

11. The Mixed Convection Number for Porous Media Flow

    • E. Holzbecher

    Pages 169-181

12. Sidewall Heating in Shallow Cavities Near the Density Maximum

    • D. M. Leppinen, D. A. S. Rees

    Pages 183-194

13. Active Control of the Onset of Convection in Porous Medium by Mechanical Vibration

    • A. Mojtabi, M. C. Charrier-Mojtabi, K. Maliwan, Y. Pedramrazi

    Pages 195-207

14. Onset of Oscillatory and Stationary Double-Diffusive Convection Within a Tilted Porous Enclosure

    • M. Mamou

    Pages 209-219

15. On Stability Analysis of Soret Convection Within a Horizontal Porous Layer

    • M. Bourich, M. Mamou, M. Hasnaoui, A. Amahmid

    Pages 221-234

16. Nonlinear Vortex Instabilities in Free Convective Boundary Layers in Porous Media

    • D. A. S. Rees

    Pages 235-245

17. Thermal Non-Equilibrium Free Convection in a Cavity Filled With a Non-Darcy Porous Medium

    • A. C. Baytas

    Pages 247-258

18. Entropy Generation for Free and Forced Convection in a Porous Cavity and a Porous Channel

    • A. C. Baytas

    Pages 259-270

19. Natural Convection in Anisotropic Heterogeneous Porous Medium

    • R. Bennacer

    Pages 271-284

20. Effects of Anisotropy on Convection in Horizontal and Inclined Porous Layers

    • L. Storesletten

    Pages 285-306

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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