Convection in Porous Media

by Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

Overview

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, such as fibrous insulation, geological strata, and catalytic reactors with applications in building insulation, energy storage, nuclear-waste disposal, coal and grain storage, chemical reactor engineering, groundwater flow, and convection in snow. The presentation is self-contained, requiring only routine classical mathematics and the basics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319495613
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Edition description:	5th ed. 2017
Pages:	988
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Following five years of service in the Royal New Zealand Navy, Donald Nield has held an appointment at the University of Auckland since 1962, the first 24 years in the Department of Mathematics and the remainder in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is currently an Honorary Academic. He holds the degrees of BD (Otago), MSc (NZ), MA (Cambridge) and PhD (Auckland). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Transport in Porous Media.
Adrian Bejan earned all his degrees at M.I.T.: B.S. (1971, Honors Course), M.S. (1972, Honors Course) and Ph.D. (1975). His work is in engineering science, applied physics, and the Constructal Law of physics, which governs organization and evolution in nature. He is the author of 30 books and over 600 peer-refereed journal articles. In 2001 he was ranked among the 100 most-cited authors in all Engineering worldwide. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, and an honorary member of ASME. He was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.

Table of Contents

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.- 2 Heat Transfer through a Porous Medium.- 3 Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows.- 4 Forced Convection.- 5. External Natural Convection.- 6 Internal Natural Convection: Heating from Below.- 7 Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side.- 8 Mixed Convection.- 9 Double-Diffusive Convection.- 10 Convection with Change of Phase.- 11 Geophysical Aspects.- References.- Index.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews of the fourth edition:

“The book by Nield and Bejan provides a fundamental and comprehensive presentation of mathematical and physical theories of many classical and new (modern) areas of flow and transport in porous media … . The book is excellently written and easily readable. … extremely useful to a wide range of specialists working in the area of flow in porous media, such as university students, graduate students, design engineers, physicists, chemical engineers, and also to researchers interested in the mathematical theory of flow in porous media.” (Ioan Pop, zbMATH, Vol. 1268, 2013)

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