This course deals with flows and heat transfer in porous media along with their applications.
Students review the conditions and characteristics of flows in porous media, including slow flow with Darcy’s law, fast flow with Brinkman’s equations and flow with varying saturation using Richard’s equation.
Non-Darcian flow, fracture flow and multiphase flow in porous media are also discussed, with the theoretical foundations behind each physical interface.
The course also presents the modifications of heat transfer equations for porous media, coupling with moisture transport and practical applications in pharmaceutical, food, agricultural, chemical, civil and nuclear engineering.
The course connects porous-media flow interfaces, heat-transfer modeling, moisture transport and application-driven COMSOL workflows.
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