PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
An
Engineering Foundation
&
Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences
Conference
June 16 - 21, 1996
Kona Surf Hotel
78-128 Ehukai Street
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740
Phone: 1-808-322-3411
Fax: 1-808-322-3245
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Professor Kambiz Vafai
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
206 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1107
Phone: 1-614-292-6560 Fax: 1-614-292-3163
E-mail: vafai.1@osu.edu
Professor Pappur N. Shivakumar
University of Manitoba
Industrial Mathematical Science
420 Machray Hall
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2
Canada
Phone: 1-204-474-6724 Fax: 1-204-275-0019
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4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Registration
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
Conference Co-Chairs:
Kambiz Vafai & Pappur Shivakumar
Engineering Foundation Liaison:
Frank Schmidt
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm
KEYNOTE: TBA
8:45 pm - 10:45 pm
Opening Reception
7:00 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am
SESSION I: Natural and Forced
Convection in Porous Media
Session Chairs: Serge A. Bories and Marcello de Lemos
8:30 am - 9:00 am "The Effect of Inertia on the Stability
of Convection in a Porous Layer Heated from Below"
David A.S. Rees
University of Bath, United Kingdom
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"The Effect of Fluid Inertia on the Onset
of Unsteady Convection in a Saturated Porous Layer Heated
From Below"
Robin Strange
University of Bath, United Kingdom
9:30 am - 10:00 am
"Heat Transfer Due to Pulsating Flow
Through a Pipe Partially Filled With a Porous Medium"
Hyung Jin Sung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"An Analytical Study of Forced Convection
in a Porous Medium"
Donald A. Nield
University of Auckland, New Zealand
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Effect of Gravity Modulation on the
Onset of Convection in a Porous Layer"
M.S. Malashetty
Gulbarga University, India
11:30 - 12:00 noon
"Unsteady Forced Convection Boundary
Layer Flow Through Saturated Porous Media"
Nurzahan Banu
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Ad hoc Sessions/Free Time
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Dinner
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
SESSION II: Multiphase Flow
and Heat Transfer
Session Chairs: Stephen Whitaker and Francis Dullien
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Capillary Effects and Multiphase Flow
in Porous Media"
Francis A.L. Dullien
University of Waterloo, Canada
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
"Phase Change Phenomena in Porous Media
Driven by Mass Transfer"
Marc Prat
Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"A Review of Enhanced Vapor-Phase Diffusion
Mechanisms, Models and Data - Does Enhanced Vapor-Phase Diffusion
Exist?"
Stephen Webb
Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, USA
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
"Studies of Axial Dispersion in Single
and Two Phase Flow in Porous Media"
Mohammad Jamialahmadi
University of Petroleum Industry, Iran
9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
"Packed-Bed Heat Exchanger with a Two-Phase
Matrix"
Maria Martins-Costa
Lab. Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, RJ-Brazil
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Social Hour
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7:00 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am
SESSION III: Advanced Mathematical
Approaches to Modeling and Numerical Techniques
Session Chairs: N. Rudraiah and John Georgiadis
8:30 am - 9:00 am
"Advanced Modeling of Packed Bed Chemical
Reactors"
D. Vortmeyer
Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Momentum & Energy Conditions at
the Boundary Between a Porous Medium and a Homogeneous Fluid"
Stephen Whitaker
University of California - Davis, USA
9:30 am - 10:00 am
"Mathematical Modeling of Non-Darcian
Radiative-Convective Boundary Layer Heat Transfer From a
Vertical Flat Porous Plate in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Medium
with Transverse Magnetic Field"
H.S. Takhar
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"A Numerical Modeling of Turbulent
Flow in Porous Media Using a Spatially Periodic Array"
Akira Nakayama
Shizuoka University, Japan
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Deep Hydrothermal Systems: Mathematical
Modeling of Hot Dense Brines Containing Non-Condensible Gases"
Robert McKibbin
Massey University, New Zealand
11:30 am - 12:00 noon
"On the Application of the Pontryagin's
Formalism to Solution of an Optimal Control Problem for a
Porous Slab"
A.V. Kuznetsov
Technical University of Vienna, Austria
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Ad hoc Sessions/Free Time
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Dinner
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
SESSION IV: Effective Properties
Session Chairs: Ping Cheng and G. Lauriat
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"The Effective Stagnant Thermal Conductivity
of Porous Media With Periodic Structures"
Ping Cheng
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
"Effective Thermal Conductivities in
Self-Similar Porous Media"
Boming Yu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in
High Permeability Porous Media"
Ivan Catton
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Poster Session I: Transport Through Porous
Media
and concurrent Social Hour
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7:00 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am
SESSION V: Experimental and Measuring
Techniques
Session Chairs: Dieter Vortmeyer and Hirotoshi Kubota
8:30 am - 9:00 am
"Experimental Evidence for Permeability
Minima at Low-Velocity Gas Flow Through Porous Media"
Rudolf Meyer
University of Calgary, Canada
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Electrochemical Characterization of
Porous Media"
Jan Myland
Trent University, Canada
9:30 am - 10:00 am
"Flow and Temperature Visualization
of Centrifugally Driven Free Convection in a Rotating Hele-Shaw
Cell"
Peter Vadasz
University of Durban-Westville, South Africa
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Experimental and Numerical Analysis
of Drying of Particles in Superheated Steam"
Lounes Tadrist
I.U.S.T.I. UMR 139, France
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Quantification of Soil Macropores
by Computer Assisted Tomography"
Johan Perret
McGill University, Canada
11:30 am - 12:00 noon
"Classification of One-Dimensional
Steady-State Two-Phase Geothermal Flows"
Roger M. Young
N.Z. Institute for Industrial Research and Development, New
Zealand
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Ad hoc Sessions/Free Time
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Dinner
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
SESSION VI: Industrial and Environmental
Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
Session Chairs: Ivan Catton and Charles Hickox
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Thermal Protection System with use of
Porous Media for Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle"
Hirotoshi Kubota
University of Tokyo, Japan
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
"Direct Simulation of Interstitial Velocity
Fields in Large Randomly Packed Beds on the Connection Machine"
John Georgiadis
University of Illinois, USA
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Study of Mechanisms Resulting in Enhanced
Production Induced by Wellbore Cavitation"
Hans H. Vaziri
Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
"A Thermal Mixing Model in Tube Bundles
for Use With the Porous Body Approximation"
John Ashcroft
KAPL Inc., NY, USA
9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
"Numerical Simulation of Filter Cake
Build-Up for Surface Filters"
Ansgar Christ
RWTH Aachen, Germany
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Social Hour
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7:00 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am
SESSION VII: Reactive Flows and Radiation
Heat Transfer
Session Chairs: Massoud Kaviany and M.H. Hamdan
8:30 am - 9:00 am
"Modelling of Combustion in Porous Media"
Massoud Kaviany
University of Michigan, USA
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Reactive Liquid Composite Molding"
James Lee
Ohio State University, USA
9:30 am - 10:00 am
"The Reaction-Infiltration Instability"
John Chadam
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences,
Canada
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Reactive
Flows in Porous Media"
Fengjee Peter Tsai
Pacific-Sierra Research Co., USA
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Poster Session II: Applications and
Modeling Approaches
12:00 noon - 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
SESSION VIII: Combined Heat and Mass Transfer
Session Chairs: Vladimir Nakoryakov and Abdelkader Mojtabi
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
"Recent Advances in Numerical Techniques
Applied to Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media"
Marcelo J.S. de Lemos
IEME/ITA/CTA, Brazil
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
"Convective Acceleration of Mass Transfer
in Porous Catalysts by Pressure Oscillations"
J.C. van den Heuvel
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
"Onset of Thermosolutal Convective Regime
in Rectangular Porous Cavity"
Marie-Catherine Charrier-Mojtabi
Universite Paul Sabatier, France
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
"Deep Bed Filtration of Molten Metals"
Bogdan Venescu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
"Filling of Porous Media in Materials
Processing Applications"
B. Minaie
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
"Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous
Media"
V.E. Nakoryakov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session III: Multiphase Transport
in Porous Media
and Concurrent Social Hour
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free Time
7:00 pm
Luau at Keauhou Beach Hotel
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7:00 am - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am
SESSION IX: Natural and Forced Convection
in Porous Media
Session Chairs: W.J. Minkowycz and Hamid Hadim
8:30 am - 9:00 am
"Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Finite
Thickness Fluid-Saturated Porous Layer"
N. Rudraiah
Gulbarga University, India
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Issues Involved in the Numerical Simulation
of Coupled Viscous and Porous Flow"
Charles E. Hickox
Sandia National Labs, New Mexico, USA
9:30 am - 10:00 am
"Numerical Study of Non-Darcy Forced
Convection on a Power-Law Fluid in a Packed Bed"
Hamid A. Hadim
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Heat Transfer With or Without Phase
Change in a Sintered Fibrous Medium"
Marc Miscevic
Laboratoire de l'Institut Universitaire des Systemes Thermiques
Industriels (IUSTI), France
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Lunch and Adjournment
(Boxed Lunches will be available for those who request them
by Wednesday evening)
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Transport Through Porous Media
"High Wavenumber Convection in Tall Porous Containers
Heated From Below"
Sam Lewis, University of Bath, United Kingdom
"The Effect of Inertia on the Stability of Darcy-B'enard
Convection"
D.A.S. Rees, University of Bath, United Kingdom
"Natural Convection of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids
in a Heterogeneous Anisotropic Porous Bed"
Fengjee Peter Tsai, Pacific-Sierra Research Co., CA, USA
"Driven Convection in a Horizontal Infinite Porous Layer"
M.C. Neel, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
"An Analysis of Natural Convection in Open Cavities Filled
With a Porous Medium"
Oronzio Manca, Seconda Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy
"Mitigation of Water Wave Impact with Porous Obstacles"
Peter E. Raad, Southern Methodist University, USA
"Experimental Study of Heat Transfer in Porous Structures"
B.M. Galitseisky, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia
"Spectral Method Applied to Convection in Porous Media"
M. Azaiez, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
"Non-Darcian Effects on Convective Instability in Porous
Media with Throughflow"
I.S. Shivakumara, Central College Bangalore University, India
"Convection Induced by Inclined Gradients in a Shallow
Porous Medium Layer"
J.L. Lage, South Methodist University, USA
"Heat Transfer Studies in Packed Beds: Effect of Pellet
Geometry"
S.M. Mak, University of Teesside, United Kingdom
"On Closure Modeling for Volume Averaged Transport Equations"
Prieur du Plessis, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
"Turbulent Phenomena in Flow through Porous Media"
Takashi Masuoka, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
"Flow and Heat Transfer in Deformable Porous Medium"
Kambiz Vafai, Ohio State University, USA
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Poster Session II
Thursday, June 20, 1996
11:00 AM - 12 NOON
Applications and Modeling Approaches
"Continuum Modeling of Single Phase Packed Bed Flow"
Shijie Liu, University of Alberta, Canada
"Superadiabatic Combustion in Porous Media and its Application"
S.A. Zhdanok, A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass-Transfer Inst., Belarus
"Use of Porous Inserts in Heat Transfer Enhancement in
Cooling Channels"
M. Sozen, Southern University, USA
"Mathematical Modeling of a Sewage Sludge Incineration
and Ash Melting Furnace with Coke-packed Bed"
Jiabing Wang, Ryutai Consultants Co. Ltd., Japan
"Study of Flow and Heat Exchange in Channel With High-Porous
Cellular Materials for Force Convection of Single-Phase and Boiling
Heat-Transfer Fluid"
Yu. F. Gortyshov, Kazan State University, Russia
"Two-Scale Modeling of Clays"
Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA
"Porosity of Randomly Packed Beds of Rigid Fibers: An
Experimental Study"
Lounes Tadrist, I.U.S.T.I. UMR 139, France
"A Numerical Investigation of Electroconductive Heating
in Solid-Liquid Mixtures"
Sudhir Sastry, Ohio State University, USA
"Experimental and Computation Study of Laminar Entrained
Flow Reactor on Pulverized Coal Combustion"
Zhiguo Zhang, National Coal Combustion Laboratory, P.R. China
"An Aquifer-Well Thermofluid Model to Design a Down Heat
Exchanger"
Giorgio Buonanno, Universita Degli Studi de Cassino, Italy
"A Study on the Shapes of a Bubble Attached to a Tip in
a Uniform and a Nonuniform Electric Field"
H.J. Cho, POSTECH, Korea
"Filling and Releasing Kinetics of Pores by Particles"
B. Khuzhayorov, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
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Multiphase Transport in Porous Media
"Modeling of a Capillary Evaporator"
Chao-Yang Wang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
"Heat and Mass Transfer in a Packed Bed with Cocurrent
Two-Phase Flow"
V.V. Kuznetsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
"Enhancement of Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Channel
with Porous Insert"
Yu A. Zeigarnik, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
"Drying Process in a Porous Medium with Non-Penetrating
Heating Surface"
S. Lin, Concordia University, Canada
"Constitutive Equations to Model the Relationship Between
Saturation, Vapor Pressure and Capillary Pressure in Porous Building
Materials"
Fabio Peron, Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia,
Italy
"Electrical Alternating Current Effects on Flow of Oil
and Water in Porous Media"
Osvair V. Trevisan, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
"A Model for Calculating Effective Diffusion Coefficient
in Micropore of 13X Zeolite"
Ren Xiaoguang, Liaoyang Petrochemical Engineering Institute, China
"Transient Non-darcy Film Condensation Porous Media"
Carlos Daniel Ebinuma, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
"Computation of Reactive Flows in a Porous Bed With and
Without Radiative Heat Transfer"
Fengjee Peter Tsai, Pacific-Sierra Research Co., California, USA
"Gas-Phase Diffusion in Porous Media-Evaluation of and
Advective-Dispersive Formulation and the Dusty-Gas Model"
Stephen Webb, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM, USA
"Mathematical Theory for Two-Phase Displacement with Hysteresis"
Pavel G. Bedrikovetsky, CENPES, DIGER, Cidade Universitaria, Brazil
"A New Mathematical Theory for 1-Phase Multicomponent
Transport in Fractured Porous Media"
Pavel G. Bedrikovetsky, CENPES, DIGER, Cidade Universitaria, Brazil
"Visualization of Phase Change Mechanism in Porous Media
with Forced Flow"
Lounes Tadrist, I.U.S.T.I. UMR 139, France
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