Transport processes in porous media

This book addresses the issue of transport processes in chemical engineering. It deals with the analysis of solid-fluid systems such as reactor packing, catalytic reactors, groundwater flows, radioactive waste disposal, spatially periodic porous media, surfactant dispersion, and others. Some of the topics covered include: geometrical properties of spatially periodic porous media; some fundamental properties of spatially periodic functions; darcy-scale fields; conduction processes and molecular transport phenomena in porous media and composite materials; kinematics, dynamics, and energetics of fluid motion in spatially periodic porous media; the flow of newtonian liquids; convective-dispersion phenomena; geometric symmetries of spatially periodic porous media.