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Synopsis
Preface to the Fifth EditionPreface to the Fourth EditionPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionNomenclature1 Mechanics of Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium1.1 Introduction1.2 Porosity1.3 Seepage Velocity and the Equation of Continuity1.4 Momentum Equation: Darcy's Law1.4.1 Darcy's Law: Permeability1.4.2 Deterministic Models Leading to Darcy's Law1.4.3 Statistical Models Leading to Darcy's Law1.5 Extensions of Darcy's Law1.5.1 Acceleration and Other Inertial Effects1.5.2 Quadratic Drag: Forchheimer's Equation1.5.3 Brinkman's Equation1.5.4 Non-Newtonian Fluid1.6 Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions1.7 Effects of Porosity Variation1.8 Turbulence in Porous Media1.9 Fractured Media, Deformable Media, and Complex Porous Media1.10 Bidisperse Porous Media2 Heat Transfer through a Porous Medium2.1 Energy Equation: Simple Case2.2 Energy Equation: Extensions to More Complex Situations2.2.1 Overall Thermal Conductivity of a Porous Medium2.2.2 Effects of Pressure Changes, and Viscous Dissipation2.2.3 Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium2.2.4 Thermal Dispersion2.2.5 Cellular Porous Media2.3 Oberbeck-Boussinesq Approximation2.4 Thermal Boundary Conditions2.5 Hele-Shaw Analogy2.6 Bioheat Transfer and Other Approaches3 Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows3.1 Multicomponent Flow: Basic Concepts3.2 Mass Conservation in a Mixture3.3 Combined Heat and Mass Transfer3.4 Effects of a Chemical Reaction3.5 Multiphase Flow3.5.1 Conservation of Mass3.5.2 Conservation of Momentum3.5.3 Conservation of Energy3.5.4 Summary: Relative Permeabilities3.6 Unsaturated Porous Media3.7 Electrodiffusion through Porous media3.8 Nanofluids4 Forced Convection4.1 Plane Wall with Prescribed Temperature4.2 Plane Wall with Prescribed Heat Flux4.3 Sphere and Cylinder: Boundary Layers4.4 Point Source and Line Source: Thermal Wakes4.5 Confined Flow4.6 Transient Effects4.6.1 Scale Analysis4.6.2 Wall with Constant Temperature4.6.3 Wall with Constant Heat Flux4.6.4 Other Configurations4.7 Effects of Inertia and Thermal Dispersion: External Flow4.8 Effects of Boundary Friction and Porosity Variation: External Flow4.9 Effects of Boundary Friction, Inertia, Porosity Variation, Viscous Dissipation, and Thermal Dispersion: Confined Flow4.10 Local Thermal Nonequilibrium4.11 Partly Porous Configurations4.12 Transversely Heterogeneous Channels and Pipes4.13 Thermal Development4.14 Surfaces Covered with Porous Layers4.15 Designed Porous Media4.16 Other Configurations or Effects4.16.1 Effect of Temperature-dependent Viscosity4.16.2 Oscillatory Flows, Counterflows4.16.3 Non-Newtonian Fluids4.16.4 Bidisperse Porous Media4.16.5 Other Flows, Other Effects4.17 Heatlines for Visualizing Convection4.18 Constructal Tree Networks: Flow Access in Volume-to-Point Structures4.18.1 The Fundamental Volume-to-Point Flow Problem4.18.2 The Elemental Volume4.18.3 The First Construct4.18.4 Higher-Order Constructs4.18.5 The Constructal Law of Design and Evolution in Nature4.19 Constructal Multiscale Flow Structures; Vascular Design: 4.20
Synopsis
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.