Thermal Vibrational Convection in Porous Media An Introduction

Thermal vibrational convection refers to flows that appear when a nonuniformly heated fluid is subject to external vibration. The book describes the physical mechanism of thermal vibrational convection in porous media under gravitational field and the possibility of convection under acceleration. It discusses applications of modeling microgravity environments such as high frequency acceleration in a space station and material processing in space. It covers various models such as Darcy, Brinkman and Forchheimer and reviews experiments to obtain permeability, porosity and high velocity coefficients. It also discusses porous media in gas production and chemical engineering.

The effect of vibration on thermal stability of horizontal porous layer saturated with a pure fluid. The influence of vibration on thermal stability of a porous layer saturated by a binary mixture. Thermo-solutal convection in porous media saturated with binary mixture under the influence of vibration, the Soret effect. Some related topics and conclusions. Appendix A: Linear stability analysis. Appendix B: Mathieu equation. Appendix C: Lorenz model. Nomenclatures. References.