Handbook of Porous Media

The Handbook of Porous Media presents the most important and up-to-date research related to heat and mass transfer in porous media, focusing on fundamental aspects and practical applications of the latest studies to engineering products and procedures-including theoretical models of fluid flow, capillary effects, application of fractal and percolation concepts, chacterization of porous materials, multiphase flow and heat transfer, turbulent flow and heat transfer, improved measurement techniques, and enhanced design correlations. Offering an introductory overview on fundamental topics of transport in, and basic aspects of, porous media, the Handbook examines recently applied models for momentum and energy transport reveals new solutions that facilitate the possibilities of heat transfer enhancement in composite channels discusses modern developments in convective boundary layers in porous media for external flows, including numerical and analytical techniques describes t