Short description Providing readers with a solid understanding of the basics as well as an awareness of recent advances in properties and applications, this handbook and ready reference covers all important analytical and numerical methods for characterizing and predicting thermal properties.
From the contents Interfacial Heat Transport in Highly Permeable Media - A Finite Volume Approach Effective Thermal Properties of Hollow-Sphere-Structures - A Finite Element Approach Thermal Properties of Composite Materials and Porous Media: Lattice-Based Monte Carlo Approaches Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media - A Boundary Element Approach Analytical Methods for Heat Conduction in Composites and Porous Media Modeling of Composite Heat Transfer in Open-Cellular Porous Materials at High Temperatures Thermal Conduction Through Porous Systems Thermal Property of Lotus-Type Porous Copper and Application to Heat Sinks Thermal Characterization of Open-Celled Metal Foams by Direct Simulation Heat Transfer in Open-Celled Foams Subjected to Oscillating Flow Radiative and Conductive Thermal Properties of Foams On the Application of Optimization Techniques to Heat Transfer in Cellular Materials
