Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies
represents a new approach to the field, considering the
fundamentals of porous media in terms of the key roles played by
these materials in modern technology. Intended as a text for
advanced undergraduates and as a reference for practicing
engineers, the book uses the physics of flows in porous materials
to tie together a wide variety of important issues from such fields
as biomedical engineering, energy conversion, civil engineering,
electronics, chemical engineering, and environmental engineering.
Thus, for example, flows of water and oil through porous ground
play a central role in energy exploration and recovery (oil wells,
geothermal fluids), energy conversion (effluents from refineries
and power plants), and environmental engineering (leachates from
waste repositories).
Similarly, the demands of miniaturization in electronics and in
biomedical applications are driving research into the flow of heat
and fluids through small-scale porous media (heat exchangers,
filters, gas exchangers). Filters, catalytic converters, the drying
of stored grains, and a myriad of other applications involve flows
through porous media.
By providing a unified theoretical framework that includes not
only the traditional homogeneous and isotropic media but also
models in which the assumptions of representative elemental volumes
or global thermal equilibrium fail, the book provides practicing
engineers the tools they need to analyze complex situations that
arise in practice. This volume includes examples, solved problems
and an extensive glossary of symbols.
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