• ISBN13: 9781441921185
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Engineering
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: January 1, 2010
• Pages: 640
• Original Price: USD 199.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 917 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Mechanical, Mechanics / Thermodynamics, and Engineering (General)

From the Back Cover

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, such as fibrous insulation, geological strata, and catalytic reactors. The presentation is self-contained, requiring only routine classical mathematics and the basic elements of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. It will thus be of use not only to researchers and practicing engineers as a review and reference, but also to graduate students and others just entering the field.

Convection in Porous Media includes nearly 1000 new references and covers: convection in deforming porous media, "designed" porous media, the theory of deformable media, modeling viscous dissipation in hyperporous media, and more.