文档介绍：To my parents Farideh and Morad
Series Preface
Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the
industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in
the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face pro-
found issues of productivity petitiveness that require engineering
solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series is a series fea-
turing graduate texts and research monographs intended to address the
need for information in contemporary areas of mechanical engineering.
The series is conceived as prehensive one that covers a broad
range of concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate ed-
ucation and research. We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of
consulting editors, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The
names of the consulting editors are listed on the next page of this volume.
The areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, compu-
tational mechanics, dynamic systems and control, energetics, mechanics of
materials, processing, thermal science, and tribology.
Professor Bergles, the consulting editor for thermal science, and I are
pleased to present this volume of the series: Principles of Heat Transfer in
Porous Media, Second Edition, by Professor Kaviany. The selection of this
volume underscores again the interest of the Mechanical Engineering Series
to provide our readers with topical monographs as well as graduate texts.
New York, New York Frederick F. Ling
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This monograph aims at providing, through integration of available theo-
retical and empirical treatments, the differential conservation equations and
the associated constitutive equations required for the analysis of transport
in porous media. Although the empirical treatment of fluid flow and heat
transfer in porous media is over a century old, only in the last four decades
has the transport in these heterogeneous systems