Increasing the heat transfer rate of heat transfer equipment is an ever-lasting topic in thermal
engineering. Due to the advantages of light weight, high specific surface, high thermal …

This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

A volume averaging theory (VAT) established in the field of fluid-saturated porous media has
been successfully exploited to derive a general set of bioheat transfer equations for blood …

Mostly thanks to its noninvasiveness, thermal ablation is a widely used technique to treat
tumors in organs like liver, kidney and so on. With this technique tumor tissue necrosis is …

Effects of tortuosity and dispersion on the effective thermal conductivity of fluid-saturated
porous media are investigated analytically with help of a volume averaging theory. Firstly, a …

Thermocline storage concept has been considered for more than a decade as a possible
solution to reduce the huge cost of the storage system in concentrated solar power (CSP) …

Heat transfer performance assessment was made for forced convection in a heated tube
with a porous medium core and a tube with a wall covered with a porous medium layer, so …

An accurate numerical model is proposed to simulate flow through cylindrical fixed-bed
reactors with randomly packed porous non-spherical particles. The length scale for flow …

In this paper, a performance assessment of four main types of ice storage techniques for
space cooling purposes, namely ice slurry systems, ice-on-coil systems (both internal and …

Thermocline storage concept is considered as a possible solution to reduce the cost of
thermal storage in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. Recently, a multi-layered solid …