An increase in the flow velocity in flowthrough large porous media and deflection of flow regime from Darcy law causes a nonlinear relationship between hydraulic gradient and pore velocity of media. So many investigations have done previously in such Medias. One of the most important subjects in flowthrough large porous media is relationship between friction coefficient and flow characteristics...

Keywords: Modeling. Flow in porous media. Flow in aquifers. Transport in porous media. Saturated flow. Darcy's law. Dispersion. Variable density flow and transport.

Multi-hop wireless networks are facing some research issues regarding routing protocols and security mechanisms. Multihop decentralized architecture, media access delay, lower link life, and multi-layer security threats are the key challenges which need to be address. The selection of optimal path for routing and the detection of multilayer security attacks cannot be achieved with the tradition...

Accidental spillages or leakages of organic compound within the environment, released as non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL), result a widespread contamination of subsurface soils and groundwater. In such multi-phase flow system in porous media, interphase mass transfer mainly governs the overall transport processes that occur in the interface between the two fluid phases. Air-liquid interfacial ar...

A porous-dense dual-layer composite membrane reactor was proposed. The dual-layer composite membrane composed of dense 0.5 wt % Nb2O5-doped SrCo0.8Fe0.2O3-d (SCFNb) layer and porous Ba0.3Sr0.7Fe0.9Mo0.1O3-d (BSFM) layer was prepared. The stability of SCFNb membrane reactor was improved significantly by the porous-dense dual-layer design philosophy. The porous BSFM surface-coating layer can effe...

A new constitutive model for drying of an elastic porous material is presented. The model is derived by decomposing the boundary value problem of drying into parts for which an explicit solution is readily available. The mathematical form differs frommodels developed using either the concept of equivalent pore pressure or average pore pressure. Instead of pressure averaging, the extent of weake...

Using a microfabricated porous media mimic platform, we investigated how fluid flow influences the formation of filamentous structures, known as streamers, between porous media structures. We demonstrate how hydrodynamics govern the formation, morphology and the distribution of these biofilm streamers in the device. Our work establishes that, under favorable hydrodynamic conditions, streamers c...

Selective photothermolysis is the basic principle for laser treatment of vascular malformations such as port wine stain birthmarks (PWS). During cutaneous laser surgery, blood inside blood vessels is heated due to selective absorption of laser energy, while the surrounding normal tissue is spared. As a result, the blood and the surrounding tissue experience a local thermodynamic non-equilibrium...