Buoyancy-Driven Flow in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media near a Bounding Surface

Description

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium. Experiments reveal overall heat transfer laws when the flow along the wall is driven by buoyancy produced by large temperature differences, and mathematical analysis using advanced volume-averaging techniques produce estimates of how heat is dispersed in the porous zone. Engineers, hydrologists and geophysicists will find the results valuable for validation of laboratory and field tests, as well as testing their models of dispersion of heat and mass in saturated media. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 1-5 Prior Research (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 7-27 The Volume-Averaged Energy Equations (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 29-37 Heat Transfer Measurements (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 39-53 Results (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 55-78 Thermal Dispersion (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 79-84 Conclusion (Hitoshi Sakamoto, Francis A. Kulacki)....Pages 85-87 Back Matter ....Pages 89-104