Essentials of Heat and Fluid Flow in Porous Media

This textbook provides a general overview of porous media flow, and introduces various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow. It has been written for graduate and advanced graduate students in various engineering disciplines. It includes the topics such as fluid flow, conduction, convection, and radiation in porous media as well as porous medium aspects of biological systems. The concepts are supported by numerous solved examples to aid self-learning in students. The textbook also contains illustrated diagrams for better understanding of the concepts. This textbook will be useful for the core course of "Flow through Porous media" for graduate and advanced graduate students in various engineering disciplines. This textbook will also serve as a refresher course for researchers who are engaged in research related to porous media flow.

Includes exposition of fluid flow, conduction, convection, radiation in porous media Exclusive chapter on porous medium aspects of biological systems End of chapter problems for all the basic topics

Autorentext

Dr. Arunn Narasimhan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His major research interests for the past fifteen years are heat and fluid flow in porous media and biological systems. His publications include eight invited book chapters (two in the Handbook of Porous Media), two invited review articles and over hundred peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences. He has also written few novels and popular science books in Tamil language.

Inhalt
Basic Concepts.- Heat Conduction in Porous Medium.- Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium.- Forced Convection through Porous Medium.- Natural Convection through Porous Medium.