Convection in Porous Media / Edition 3

by D.A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

Overview

end of Chapter 11 (geophysical aspects). Once again we decided that, except for a brief mention, convection in unsaturated media had to be beyond the scope of this book. D.A.N.againenjoyedthehospitalityof theDepartmentofMechanicalEngine- ing and Materials Science at Duke University while on Research and Study Leave from the University of Auckland, and both of those institutions again provided financial support. We are grateful for comments from Graham Weir and Roger Young on a draft of Section 11.9, a topic on which we had much to learn. We also are grateful to a large number of people who provided us with preprints of their papers prior to publication. Other colleagues have improved our understanding of the subject of this book in ways too numerous to mention here. Once again we relied on the expertise and hard work of Linda Hayes for the preparation of the electronic version of our manuscript, and again the staff at the Engineering Library of Duke University made our search of the literature an enjoyable experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441921185
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/21/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 3rd ed. 2006
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Mechanics of Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium.- Heat Transfer through a Porous Medium.- Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows.- Forced Convection.- External Natural Convection.- Internal Natural Convection: Heating from Below.- Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side.- Mixed Convection.- Double-Diffusive Convection.- Convection with Change of Phase.- Geophysical Aspects.