Table of Contents

1 Governing equations for laminar flows through porous media.- 2 Fundamentals of scale analysis, heatline visualization, and the intersection of asymptotes.- 3 Modeling the flow through porous media.- 4 Techniques for solving the boundary-layer equations.- 5 Some boundary-layer problems in convective flow in porus media.- 6 Compressible fluid dynamics in porous media by the bound- ary element method.- 7 Laplacian decomposition of steady free convection in por ous media.- 8 Genetic algorithms and their application to the identifica tion of hydraulic properties of rocks.- 9 Turbulent heat and mass transfer in porous media.- 10 The mixed convection number for porous media flow.- 11 Sidewall heating in shallow cavities near the density maximum.- 12 Active control of the onset of convection in porous medium by mechanical vibration.- 13 Onset of oscillatory and stationary double-diffusive con vection within a tilted porous enclosure.- 14 On stability analysis of Soret convection within a hori zontal porous layer.- 15 Nonlinear vortex instabilities in free convective boundary layers in porous media.- 16 Thermal non-equilibrium free convection in a cavity filled with a non-Darcy porous medium.- 17 Entropy generation for free and forced convection in a por ous cavity and a porous channel.- 18 Natural convection in anisotropic heterogeneous porous medium.- 19 Effects of anisotropy on convection in horizontal and in clined porous layers.- 20 Contribution of the thermal and molecular diffusion to convection in a vertical porous cavity.- 21 Towards a physically based theory of high-concentration gradient dispersion in porous media.- 22 Designed porous media.- 23 Modeling single-phase flows in micro heat exchangers.- 24 Axial and radial porous burners.- 25 A porous medium model to investigate the red cell distri but ion effect on alveolar respiration.- 26 Ionic contamination and decontamination of porous media.- 27 Porous media and filtration.- 28 Experimental study of forced convection through micro porous enhanced heat sinks.- 29 Two- and three-fluid retention in a porous medium for toluene by gamma-ray attenuation.- 30 Thermodynamics of fluids in mesoporous media.- 31 Expansion scaling and elastic moduli of gas-fluidized magnetizable beds.- 32 Porous media theory as basis for model of fouling layers formation in heat exchangers.

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