Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media (Mechanical Engineering Series) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 80: Mechanical Engineering

Kaviany, Maasoud

 
9780387945507: Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media (Mechanical Engineering Series)

Synopsis

Convective heat tranfer is the result of fluid flowing between objects of different temperatures. Thus it may be the objective of a process (as in refrigeration) or it may be an incidental aspect of other processes. This monograph reviews in a concise and unified manner recent contributions to the principles of convective heat transfer for single- and multi-phase systems: It summarizes the role of the fundamental mechanism, discusses the governing differential equations, describes approximation schemes and phenomenological models, and examines their solutions and applications. After a review of the basic physics and thermodynamics, the book divides the subject into three parts. Part 1 deals with single-medium transfer, specifically with intraphase transfers in single-phase flows and with intramedium transfers in two-phase flows. Part 2 deals with fluid-solid transfer processes, both in cases where the interface is small and in cases where it is large, as well as liquid-liquid transfer processes. Part 3 considers three media, addressing both liquid-solid-solid and gas-liquid-solid systems.

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This text aims to provide practising engineers and researchers with the tools needed to deal with heat transfer in the porous media encountered in geological, environmental, petrochemical and other industrial processes. Tabular and graphic presentations of the results help to connect the fundamental governing and constitutive equations to practical applications. This edition has been corrected and revised, and contains a chapter on computations for two-phase flow.

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