The present work analyzes the effects of a solid boundary and the inertial forces on flow and heat transfer in porous media. Specific attention is given to flow through a porous medium in the vicinity of an impermeable boundary. The local volume-averaging technique has been utilized to establish the governing equations, along with an indication of physical limitations and assumptions made in th...

DURING the past decade, fluid flow and heat transfer through porous media have experienced renewed research interest due to a broad range of applications, including geothermal systems, thermal insulation, metals processing, catalytic reactors, direct-contact heat exchangers, transpiration cooling, filtration, etc. In many practical systems, the porous medium has a high permeability (i.e. the po...

this work presents a numerical study to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of a 2-d rectangular composite porous radiant burner (cprb). in the construction of porous burner, the porous layer is considered to be of composite type consisting of upstream and downstream layers with equal thickness but with different physical and radiative properties. in the present work, a two dimensiona...

Works pertinent to arterial transport models are analyzed and a critical assessment of the models utilized in the study of fluid flow and mass transfer within the arteries is presented with an emphasis on the role of porous media. Arterial transport models are assessed and classified based on their ability to physically prescribe the arterial anatomy as well as the related transport processes. ...

The study of surface waves in a layered media has their viable application in geophysical prospecting. This paper presents an analytical study on the dispersion of torsional surface wave in a pre-stressed heterogeneous layer sandwiched between a pre-stressed anisotropic porous semi-infinite medium and gravitating anisotropic porous half-space. The non-homogeneity within the intermediate layer a...

The acoustic properties of a periodic rigid frame porous layer with multiple irregularities in the rigid backing and embedded rigid circular inclusions are investigated theoretically and numerically. The theoretical representation of the sound field in the structure is obtained using a combination of multipole method that accounts for the periodic inclusions and multi-modal method that accounts...

Speckle correlation diagnostics was used to study non-stationary multiple scattering multi-phase systems with spatially separated components on the instance of porous media in the course of liquid-phase evaporation. We propose a phenomenological model in which the local interfaces between air-filled and liquid-filled spaces in the probed medium act as an ensemble of the elementary dynamic scatt...

This paper investigates the convective heat and mass transfer in nanofluid flow through a porous media due to a stretching sheet subjected to magnetic field, viscous dissipation, chemical reaction and Soret effects. Two types of nanofluids, namely Cu-water and Ag-water were studied. The governing boundary layer equations are formulated and reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations usi...

The feasibility of using elastography for experimentally estimating and imaging the Poisson's ratio of porous media under drained and undrained conditions was investigated. Using standard elastographic procedures, static and time-sequenced poroelastograms (strain ratio images) of homogeneous cylindrical gelatin and commercially available tofu samples were generated under sustained applied axial...