Principles of Heat Transfer in Porous Media (Mechanical Engineering Series) [Hardcover]

Massoud Kaviany (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0387945504 | ISBN-13: 978-0387945507 | Edition: 2nd

Convective heat tranfer is the result of fluid flowing between objects of different temperatures. Thus it may be the objective of a process (as in refrigeration) or it may be an incidental aspect of other processes. This monograph reviews in a concise and unified manner recent contributions to the principles of convective heat transfer for single- and multi-phase systems: It summarizes the role of the fundamental mechanism, discusses the governing differential equations, describes approximation schemes and phenomenological models, and examines their solutions and applications. After a review of the basic physics and thermodynamics, the book divides the subject into three parts. Part 1 deals with single-medium transfer, specifically with intraphase transfers in single-phase flows and with intramedium transfers in two-phase flows. Part 2 deals with fluid-solid transfer processes, both in cases where the interface is small and in cases where it is large, as well as liquid-liquid transfer processes. Part 3 considers three media, addressing both liquid-solid-solid and gas-liquid-solid systems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 762 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (September 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387945504
• ISBN-13: 978-0387945507
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,318,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Massoud Kaviany is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is also with the Applied Physics Program, at the University of Michigan, where he has been since 1986. His Ph.D. is from the University of California-Berkeley in 1979. His area of teaching and research is heat transfer physics, with a particular interest in porous media. His e-mail is [e-mail] and URL of his laboratory is www.umich.edu/~kaviany .