D.A. Nield, Adrian Bejan

Convection in Porous Media (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

end of Chapter 11 (geophysical aspects). Once again we decided that, except for a brief mention, convection in unsaturated media had to be beyond the scope of this book. D.A.N.againenjoyedthehospitalityoftheDepartmentofMechanicalEngine- ing and Materials Science at Duke University while on Research and Study Leave from the University of Auckland, and both of those institutions again provided ?nancial support. We are grateful for comments from Graham Weir and Roger Young on a draft of Section 11.9, a topic on which we had much to learn. We also are grateful to a large number of people who provided us with preprints of their papers prior to publication. Other colleagues have improved our understanding of the subject of this book in ways too numerous to mention here. Once again we relied on the expertise and hard work of Linda Hayes for the preparation of the electronic version of our manuscript, and again the staff at the Engineering Library of Duke University made our search of the literature an enjoyable experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387334318
• Artikelnr.: 37288264

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Mechanics of Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium.- Heat Transfer through a Porous Medium.- Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows.- Forced Convection.- External Natural Convection.- Internal Natural Convection: Heating from Below.- Internal Natural Convection: Heating from the Side.- Mixed Convection.- Double-Diffusive Convection.- Convection with Change of Phase.- Geophysical Aspects.

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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.

Rezensionen

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)