会议名称(中文)：  第五届多孔介质及应用国际会议 
会议名称(英文)：  5th International Conference on Porous Media

and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industr 
所属学科：  材料科学基础学科,纳米科学与技术  
开始日期：  2014-06-22 
结束日期：  2014-06-27 
所在国家：  美国 
所在城市：  美国 
具体地点：  Kona, Hawaii, USA 
主办单位：  University of California, Riverside 

[ 会务组联系方式 ]
联系人：  Prof. Kambiz Vafai   
E-MAIL：  Vafai@engr.ucr.edu    
会议网站：  http://www.engconf.org/conferences/materials-

science-including-nanotechnology/5th-international-conference-

on-porous-media-and-its-applications-in-science-engineering-and-

industry/  
会议背景介绍：      We have organized and held four very

successful conferences on Porous Media and its Applications in

Science, Engineering and Industry: in 1996 (Kona, Hawaii), in

2007 (Kauai, Hawaii), in 2010 (Montecatini, Italy), and in 2012

(Potsdam, Germany).  We are going back to location of our first

conference in 1996!  Each conference had participants from well

over 20 countries.
    This conference will build on the 2012 conference so that it

reflects the research done internationally in the currently

active areas of the topic. The presence of the highly successful

Journal of Porous Media and editions of the very well received

Handbook of Porous Media will act as an additional impetus to

further galvanize this conference.
    The pioneering works in the area of fluid transport as well

as some aspects of heat transport in porous media go back to the

beginning of the last century. Convective heat transfer in

fluid-saturated porous media has gained considerable attention in

recent decades due to its relevance in a wide range of

applications such as thermal insulation engineering, water

movements in geothermal reservoirs, heat pipes, underground

spreading of chemical waste, nuclear waste repository, geothermal

engineering, grain storage and enhanced recovery of petroleum

reservoirs. Radiative heat transfer and multiphase transport

processes in porous media, both with and without phase change,

have gained extensive attention in recent years. This is due to

the wide range of applicability of these research areas in

contemporary technology. These applications include, but are not

restricted to, areas such as geothermal engineering,building

thermal insulation, chemical catalytic reactors, packed cryogenic

microsphere insulation, petroleum reservoirs, direct contact heat

exchangers, coal combustors, nuclear waste repositories, and heat

pipe technology.
    Several applications related to porous media require a

detailed analysis of convective heat transfer in

differentgeometrical shapes, orientations and configurations.

Based on the specific applications, the flow in the porous medium

may be internal or external. Most of the studies in porous media

carried out until the past two decades are based on the Darcy

flow model, which in turn is based on the assumption of creeping

flow through an infinitely extended uniform medium. However, it

is now generally recognized that non-Darcian effects are quite

important for certain applications.
    Different models have been introduced for studying and

accounting for such non-Darcian effects as the inertial,

boundary, and variable porosity effects.
    The ultimate goal of studies in convective heat transfer in

porous media is to determine the dimensionless heat transfer

coefficient, the Nusselt number. A considerable amount of

research has been carried out to accomplish this, and empirical

correlations for the Nusselt number for a variety of

configurations and boundary conditions have been established,

with certain limitation, of a wide variety of current

technological applications.
    Many industrial operations in the areas of chemical and

metallurgical engineering involve the passage of a fluid stream

through a packed bed of particulate solids to obtain extended

solid fluid interfacial areas or good fluid mixing. Typical

examples of applications involving such systems include catalytic

and chromatographic reactions, packed absorption and distillation

towers, ion exchange columns, packed filters, pebble-type heat

exchanger, petroleum reservoirs, geothermal operations and many

others. The design of these systems is decided by mechanisms of

pressure drop, fluid flow and heat and mass transfer governing

the process in the packed bed arrangement. Considerable attention

has been paid to the aforementioned aspects because of their

direct influence on the optimization and stability of the design

of these systems.
    Developments in modeling transport phenomena in porous media

have advanced several pertinent areas, such as biology. As such

the conference will also entertain papers related to bio

transport in porous media as well as research related to

turbulent modeling in porous media.
 
征文范围及要求：  Preliminary Conference Outline
1. Natural and Forced Convection in Porous Media
2. Evaporation, Condensation, Capillary Effects and Reactive Flow

in Porous Media
3. Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Media
4. Conduction in Porous Media
5. Combined Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
6. Particle Transport and Deformable Porous Bodies
7. Advanced Mathematical Approaches to the Modeling of Porous

Media
8. Industrial and Environmental Heat Transfer and Flow in Porous

Media
9. Process Heat Transfer
10. Advances in Numerical Techniques
11. Experimental and Measuring Techniques
12. Turbulence in Porous Media13. Particle Migration and

Deposition in Porous Media
14. Bio Transport in Porous Media
15. Material Processing Applications