Vafai K. (Ed.) Handbook of Porous Media

CRC Press, 2015 — 3rd Ed. — 959p. — ISBN: 9781439885574 (eBook), 9781439885543 (Hardcover).Handbook of Porous Media, Third Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport, and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media models which can be used to improve the accuracy of modeling in a variety of practical applications.
Featuring contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, this book:
-Presents the general characteristics and modeling of porous media, such as multiscale modeling of porous media, two-phase flow, compressible porous media, and dispersion in porous media
-Addresses the fundamental topics of transport in porous media, including theoretical models of transport, membrane transport phenomena, modeling transport properties, and transport in biomedical applications
-Describes several important aspects of turbulence in porous media, including advances in modeling turbulence phenomena in heterogeneous porous media
-Explores heat transfer of nanofluids as well as thermal transport in porous media, including forced convection, double diffusive convection, high-heat flux applications, and thermal behavior of poroelastic media
-Covers geological applications in porous media, including modeling and experimental challenges related to oil fields, CO2 migration, groundwater flows, and velocity measurements
-Discusses relevant attributes of experimental work or numerical techniques whenever applicable
Paving the way for the establishment of multidisciplinary areas of research, Handbook of Porous Media, Third Edition further enhances cooperation between engineers and scientists by providing a valuable reference for addressing some of the most challenging issues in engineering and the hydrogeological, biological, and biomedical sciences.General Characteristics and Modeling of Porous Media
Multiscale Modeling of Porous Medium Systems
Advanced Theories of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Characterization of Fractures and Fracture Network of Porous Media
Thin Porous Media
Magnetically Stabilized and Fluidized Beds in Science and Technology: A Review
Lift Generation in Highly Compressible Porous Media: From Red Cells to Skiing to Soft Lubrication
Transport in Porous Media
Theoretical Analysis of Transport in Porous Media: Multiequation and Hybrid Models for a Generic Transport Problem with Nonlinear Source Terms
Porous Media Theory for Membrane Transport Phenomena
Effective Transport Properties of Porous Media by Modeling
Effective Transport through Porous Media under Nonequilibrium Relaxation Conditions
Modeling Approach for Gradient-Based Motion of Microorganisms in Porous Media and Applications in Biosystems
Turbulence in Porous Media
Feedback Control for Promoting or Suppressing the Transition to Weak Turbulence in Porous Media Convection
Advances in Modeling Turbulence Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media: Reactive Systems
Heat Transfer of Nanofluids in Porous Media
Effects of Nanofluids on Convection in Porous Media
Analyzing Nanofluids Suspension Using the Porous Media Interface Heat Transfer Model
Thermal Transport in Porous Media
Thermal Transport in Highly Porous Cellular Materials
Convection of a Bingham Fluid in a Porous Medium
High-Heat-Flux Distributed Capillary Artery Evaporators
Impinging Jets in Porous Media
Thermohydromechanical Behavior of Poroelastic Media
Thermogravitational Diffusion in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Binary Fluid
Geological Applications in Porous Media
Digital Petrophysics: Imaging, Modeling, and Experimental Challenges Related to Porous Media in Oil Fields
Modeling of Subsurface CO2 Migration at Geological Carbon Sequestration Sites in Deep Saline Aquifers
Groundwater Flows and Velocity Measurements
Geostatistical Simulation and Reconstruction of Porous Media
Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation in the Subsurface: Fundamental Reaction and Transport Processes