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.
In its expanded 4th edition, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, with some 2,000 new references and coverage of current research in nanofluids, cellular porous materials, strong heterogeneity, pulsating flow and more
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Nomenclature
1 Mechanics of Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Porosity
1.3 Seepage Velocity and the Equation of Continuity
1.4 Momentum Equation: Darcy's Law
1.4.1 Darcy's Law: Permeability
1.4.2 Deterministic Models Leading to Darcy's Law
1.4.3 Statistical Models Leading to Darcy's Law
1.5 Extensions of Darcy's Law
1.5.1 Acceleration and Other Inertial ElĂ-
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