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" Convection in Porous Media "
by Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan.
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BL
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574579
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b403798
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Nield, Donald A.
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Convection in Porous Media\ by Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan.
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Second Edition.
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New York, NY :: Springer New York :: Imprint: Springer,, 1999.
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9781475730333
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: 9781475730357
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Prefaces -- Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium -- Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium -- Mass Transfer Through 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 -- References.
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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. 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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Engineering.
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Bejan, Adrian.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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