Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media

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.

• Bioengineering and bioconvection in porous media
• Metal and Ceramic Foams
• Microelectronics and passive thermal control with Porous Med
• Nanotechnology and Nano-heat transfer in Porous Media
• Technologie
• Vibration
• bioengineering
• heat transfer
• microelectronics
• modeling
• nanotechnology
• tissue
• transport
• hydrogeology

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

  Peter Vadász

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