文档介绍：Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer
in Porous Media
Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
Series Editor:
Jacob Bear, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Isreal
Volume 22
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of the volume.
Emerging Topics in Heat
and Mass Transfer
in Porous Media
From Bioengineering and Microelectronics
to Nanotechnology
Peter Vadasz´
Editor
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, .
Editor
Peter Vadasz´
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, .
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ISBN: 978-1-4020-8177-4 e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8178-1
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Cover illustration: A fractal resulting from evaluating the projection of the trajectory of differences be-
tween numerical solutions of natural convection in porous media within the weak turbulent (chaotic)
regime window at different accuracy levels (see pages 128–129). Figure 6d (modified) was published in
P. Vadasz´ and S. Olek, Convergence and Accuracy of Adomian’s position Method for the Solution
of Lorenz Equations, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 43(10), pp. 1715–1734, 2000.
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Preface
This book is a synthesis of emerging topics in heat and mass transfer in porous
media. It brings together some of the world leaders in research on transport phe-
nomena in porous media to present the state of the art of its th