CRC Press Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media (Energy Systems)

Focusing on heat transfer in porous media, this book covers recent advances in nano and macro’ scales. Apart from introducing heat flux bifurcation and splitting within porous media, it highlights two-phase flow, nanofluids, wicking, and convection in bi-disperse porous media. New methods in modeling heat and transport in porous media, such as pore-scale analysis and Lattice–Boltzmann methods, are introduced. The book covers related engineering applications, such as enhanced geothermal systems, porous burners, solar systems, transpiration cooling in aerospace, heat transfer enhancement and electronic cooling, drying and soil evaporation, foam heat exchangers, and polymer-electrolyte fuel cells. About the Author Yasser Mahmoudi, PhD, is a Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at Queens University Belfast and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. He is an associate editor of special topics and reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal. Kamel Hooman, PhD, is the Director of the Renewable Energy Conversion Centre of Excellence at The University of Queensland and an associate editor for International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer Engineering, Journal of Porous Media, and special topics and reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal. Kambiz Vafai, PhD, is the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside, and a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, World Innovation Foundation, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Vafai is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Porous Media and special topics and reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal and an editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.