this work presents the heat transfer characteristics of a new type of porous radiant air heater that operates on the basis of effective energy conversion method between flowing gas enthalpy and thermal radiation. at each layer, the gas and solid phases are considered in non-local thermal equilibrium, and combustion in the porous radiant burner is modeled by considering a non-uniform heat genera...

Lattice gas automata (LGA) model is developed to simulate polymer adsorption process by adding some collision rules. The simulation result of the model is matched with batch experiment and compared with accepted isothermal adsorption equations. They show that the model is viable to perform simulation of the polymer adsorption process. The LGA model is then applied for simulating continuous poly...

A Computational model to solve the coupled transport equations with chemical reaction and phase change for a liquid droplet between two approaching porous or non-porous surfaces, is developed. The model is general therefore it can be applied to toxic chemicals (contact hazard), drug delivery through porous organs and membranes, combustion processes within porous material, and liquid movements i...

Dusty gas flow through isotropic porous media is considered. The equations governing dusty gas flow through free space are intrinsically averaged in order to derive a comprehensive model that describes flow of a dusty gas through porous media. The developed model is capable of describing flow of mixtures with non-uniform number density through variable porosity media, while taking into account ...

The Flow through saturated-unsaturated porous media is extremely important in various natural and industrial based applications. While the Darcy's law with various modifications are used to model the flow through a porous media, the flow through unsaturated porous media is largely based on conservation of mass and modified Darcy's law where non-linear relationship exists between the p...

A new model for turbulent flows in porous media is developed. The spatialand time fluctuations in this new model are tied together and treated as a single quantity. This novel treatment of the fluctuations leads to a natural construction of the k and e type equations for rigid and isotropic porous media in which all the kinetic energy filtered in the averaging process is modeled. The same terms...

A new model to describe turbulent flows within the porous media approximation is presented. The spatialand time fluctuations in this new model are tied together and treated as a single quantity. This novel treatment of the fluctuations leads to a natural construction of the “k” and “epsilon” type equations for rigid and isotropic porous media in which all the kinetic energy filtered in the aver...

Development of pore network models for real porous media requires a detailed understanding of physical processes occurring on the microscopic scale and a complete description of porous media morphology. In this study, the microstructure of porous media has been represented by three dimensional networks of interconnected pores and throats which are designed by an object oriented approach. Af...

The transport mechanism of contaminated groundwater has been a problematic issue for many decades, mainly due to the bad impact of the contaminants on the quality of the groundwater system. In this paper, the exact solution of two-dimensional advection-dispersion equation (ADE) is derived for a semi-infinite porous media with spatially dependent initial and uniform/flux boundary conditions. The...