Turbulence in Porous Media

Turbulence in Porous Media has as its primary audience graduate students, engineers and scientists involved with design and analyses of modern engineering systems. These innovative developments include: a) fuel cells, porous combustors and advanced heat exchangers; b) studies of biomechanical problems such as air flow in lungs and; c) modeling of natural and environmental flows such as atmospheric boundary layer over vegetation, fire in forests and spread of contaminants near rivers and bays. The book compiles, details, compares and evaluates the available methodologies in the literature for modeling and simulating a variety of flows though permeable media. Therefore, it can be useful to different fields of knowledge covering Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Aerospace and Petroleum) and Basic Sciences (Thermal Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Geological and Environmental Sciences). This book was written for use in graduate courses on Turbulent Transport Phenomena in Engineering, Chemical and Environmental programs, which deal with research areas involving this theme. Book jacket.

Marcelo J.S. is a Professor at ITA, founder and head of the Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory