Journal of Heat Transfer

Special Issue on Recent Advances in Porous Media Transport

Volume 131, Issue 10

 

 

Recent Advances in Porous Media Transport

Kambiz Vafai

 

Analysis of the Wicking and Thin-Film Evaporation Characteristics of Microstructures

Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella

 

Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Approach for Heat Transport in Single-Fluid-Phase Porous Medium Systems

William G. Gray and Cass T. Miller

 

Effect of Boundary Conditions on the Onset of Thermomagnetic Convection in a Ferrofluid Saturated Porous Medium

I. S. Shivakumara, C. E. Nanjundappa, and M. Ravisha

 

How Good Is Open-Cell Metal Foam as Heat Transfer Surface?

Indranil Ghosh

 

Forced Convection With Laminar Pulsating Counterflow in a Saturated Porous Channel

D. A. Nield and A. V. Kuznetsov

 

On the Characterization of Lifting Forces During the Rapid Compaction of Deformable Porous Media

Banafsheh Barabadi, Rungun Nathan, Kei-peng Jen, and Qianhong Wu

 

Upscaling of the Geological Models of Large-Scale Porous Media Using Multiresolution Wavelet Transformations

M. Reza Rasaei and Muhammad Sahimi

 

A Depletion Strategy for an Active Bottom-Water Drive Reservoir Using Analytical and Numerical Models—Field Case Study

Ibrahim Sami Nashawi, Ealian H. Al-Anzi, and Yousef S. Hashem

 

Effect of Thermal Modulation on the Onset of Electrothermoconvection in a Dielectric Fluid Saturated Porous Medium

N. Rudraiah and M. S. Gayathri

 

The Use of a Nano- and Microporous Surface Layer to Enhance Boiling in a Plate Heat Exchanger

Richard Furberg, Björn Palm, Shanghua Li, Muhammet Toprak, and Mamoun Muhammed

 

Therporaoustic Convection: Modeling and Analysis of Flow, Thermal, and Energy Fields

Shohel Mahmud and Roydon Andrew Fraser

 

Dual-Permeability Modeling of Capillary Diversion and Drift Shadow Effects in Unsaturated Fractured Rock

Clifford K. Ho, Bill W. Arnold, and Susan J. Altman

 

 

A Porous Media Approach for Bifurcating Flow and Mass Transfer in a Human Lung

Fujio Kuwahara, Yoshihiko Sano, Jianjun Liu, and Akira Nakayama

 

A Robust Asymptotically Based Modeling Approach for Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

M. M. Awad and S. D. Butt

 

The Modeling of Form Drag in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Power-Law Fluid

D. A. Nield