Numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer in porous media / edited by João M. P. Q. Delgado, Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima and Marta Velazquez da Silva

Includes bibliographical references.

Numerical analysis of mass transfer around a sphere buried in porous media: concentration contours and boundary layer thickness -- Mass transport in porous media with variable mass -- Study of diffusion in a one-dimensional lattice-gas model of zeolites: the analytical approach and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations -- Transient diffusion in arbitrary shape porous bodies: numerical analysis using boundary-fitted coordinates -- Resin transfer molding process; fundamentals, numerical computation and experiments -- Thermal dispersion in high-conductivity porous media -- Heat transfer enhancement in short corrugated mini-tubes -- Assessment of heat affected zone of submerged arc welding process through digital image processing -- Modeling the pore level fluid flow in porous media using the immersed boundary method -- Computer simulation of the origination porosity -- Unsaturated-saturated flow in porous media under centrifugation -- Contaminant transport in partially saturated porous media.

The purpose of 'Numerical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media' is to provide a collection of recent contributions in the field of computational heat and mass transfer in porous media.