Wicking in porous materials : traditional and modern modeling approaches /: traditional and modern modeling approaches. (2012 ©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai.
• Other Names: Masoodi, Reza; Pillai, Krishna M
• Contents: 1. Introduction to wicking in porous media / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 2. Wettability and its role in wicking / Jijie Zhou -- 3. Traditional theories of wicking : capillary models / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 4. An introduction to modeling flows in porous media / Krishna M. Pillai and Kamel Hooman -- 5. Single-phase flow (sharp-interface) models for wicking / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 6. Modeling fluid absorption in anisotropic fibrous porous media / Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi and Thomas M. Bucher -- 7. Wicking in absorbent swelling porous materials / Vladimir Mirnyy [and others] -- 8. Evaporation and wicking / Stp̌hanie Veran-Tissoires [and others] -- 9. Pore-network modeling of wicking : a two-phase flow approach / Vahid Joekar-Niasar and S. Majid Hassanizadeh -- 10. A fractal-based approach to model wicking / Jianchao Cai, Boming Yu, and Xiangyun Hu -- 11. Modeling wicking in deformable porous media using mixture theory / Daniel M. Anderson and Javed I. Siddique -- 12. Simulating fluid wicking into porous media with the Lattice Boltzmann method / Marcel G. Schaap and Mark L. Porter.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 353 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 620.1/169; Porous materials -- Mathematical models; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Material Science; Porous materials -- Mathematical models; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439874332; 1439874336
• Related ISBNs: 9781439874325; 1439874328
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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