Convection in Porous Media [Hardcover]

D.A. Nield (Author), A. Bejan (Author)

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Publication Date: November 6, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0387984437 | ISBN-13: 978-0387984438 | Edition: 2nd

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. Applications discussed include such disparate topics as building insulation, energy storage, nuclear-waste disposal, coal and grain storage, chemical reactor engineering, groundwater flow, and stability of snow to avalanches. In this second edition the authors have added: discussions of compact heat exchangers and of tree networks; new material on external natural convection; descriptions of the effects of magnetic fields, of rotations, and of periodic heating; discussions of inclined gradients and of the solidification of alloys; and an extensive treatment of two -phase flows. An extensive list of references (emphasizing recent experimetnal work) provides access to the current research literature.

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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. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 546 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (November 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387984437
• ISBN-13: 978-0387984438
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,209,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book; ~1/4 of content is REFERENCES., March 14, 2008

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This review is from: Convection in Porous Media (Hardcover)

This is a good book, but it is written very much like a really long paper, rather than a book for teaching a subject to someone new in a field. 150 of the 640 pages are references (23% of the book!); it seems like they cited every paper ever published in the field.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book of Porous Media, September 9, 2007

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This review is from: Convection in Porous Media (Hardcover)

This book provide a good review of literatura, and a discussion about main concepts of porous media.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, March 27, 2007

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This review is from: Convection in Porous Media (Hardcover)

Nield has the best understanding of porous media analysis. He is a prolofic writer and contributor to the field and is most qualified to write this comprehensive text.