Melville, New York, 2012

AIP | CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1453

EDITOR

Kambiz VafaiUniversity of California, Riverside, CA, USA

POROUS MEDIA AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND INDUSTRYFourth International Conference

Potsdam, Germany June 17 – 22, 2012

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONNational Science Foundation, ECI

Editor

Kambiz VafaiDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California, RiversideA363 Bourns HallRiverside, CA 92521-0425, USA

E-mail: Vafai@engr.ucr.edu

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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1453

Porous Media and Its Applications in Science, Engineering, and Industry Fourth International Conference

Table of Contents

Preface: Porous Media and Its Applications in Science, Engineering, and Industry Kambiz Vafai

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ORAL SESSION 1

TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIA (I)

Fluid flow and solute transport in unevenly-stratified groundwater aquifers Amjad Ali, Robert McKibbin, and Winston L. Sweatman

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How to calculate tortuosity easily? Maciej Matyka and Zbigniew Koza

17

Fluid flow and aerosol transport in T-shaped 3D structures Ana Serrenho and Antonio F. Miguel

23

A new experimental technique to study the flow in a porous layer via rheological tests Claudia Carotenuto, Francesco Marinello, and Mario Minale

29

ORAL SESSION 2

POROUS MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS (I)

Pore-scale modeling of the impacts of geochemical transformations on flow Sumit Mukhopadhyay

37

Channel segregation during columnar solidification influence of inertia Arvin Kumar, Miha Založnik, Hervé Combeau, B. Goyeau, and D. Gobin

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The flow around circular cylinders partially coated with porous media Bodo Ruck, Katharina Klausmann, and Tobias Wacker

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ORAL SESSION 3

POROUS MEDIA IN BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

Porous media for catalytic renewable energy conversion Nico Hotz

57

Interaction of gusts with forest edges Bodo Ruck and Michael Tischmacher

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Towards a porous media model of the human lung Christopher T. DeGroot and Anthony G. Straatman

69

ORAL SESSION 4

NANO AND MICRO SCALE PHENOMENA

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic flow of a micropolar fluid due to constant accelerated disk with no slip conditions in a porous medium F. Shahzad and T. Hayat

77

Moderate Reynolds number flow through microchannels filled with arrays of micro-cylinders A. Tamayol, J. Yeom, K. Hooman, and M. Akbari

83

Laws of non-symmetric optimal flow structures, from the macro to the micro scale A. Heitor Reis

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ORAL SESSION 5

EXPERIMENTAL AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

Measurements on the flow of vapors near saturation through porous Vycor glass membranes Thomas Loimer, Jirina Reznickova, Petr Uchytil, and Katerina Setnickova

97

Experimental investigations of heterogeneous effect on supercritical pressure CO2 and water flow in sintered porous media Peixue Jiang, Shu Luo, and Ruina Xu

103

ORAL SESSION 6

INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN POROUS MEDIA (I)

Numerical modeling of ground water flow and contaminant transport in a saturated porous medium Mohammad S. Valipour, Masoomeh Sadeghi, Amir H. Mahmoudi, Mina Shahi, and Hadi Gandaghi

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Turbulent heat transfer analysis of silicon carbide ceramic foam as a solar volumetric receiver C. Yang, Y. Sano, S. Iwase, and A. Nakayama

115

Macroscopic turbulent models for heat and mass transfer in catalyst reactors Fabrice Mathey

121

Local heat transfer coefficients and superficial bed porosity of a horizontal cylinder in bubbling fluidized beds of geldart B particles Francesco Di Natale and Roberto Nigro

127

ORAL SESSION 7

MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA

A novel numerical approach for the solution of the problem of two-phase, immiscible flow in porous media: Application to LNAPL and DNAPL Amgad Salama, Shuyu Sun, and Mohamed F. El Amin

135

Computational modeling technique for numerical simulation of immiscible two-phase flow problems involving flow and transport phenomena in porous media with hysteresis Eduardo Abreu and Wanderson Lambert

141

Non-local equilibrium two-phase flow model with phase change in porous media and its application to reflooding of a severely damaged reactor core A. Bachrata, F. Fichot, M. Quintard, G. Repetto, and J. Fleurot

147

ORAL SESSION 8

OIL RESERVOIRS AND GEOPHYSICS

Theoretical fundamentals, critical issues, and adequate formulation of effective shale gas and condensate reservoir simulation Faruk Civan, Deepak Devegowda, and Richard Sigal

155

Modern hardware architectures accelerate porous media flow computations

Michal Kulczewski, Krzysztof Kurowski, Michal Kierzynka, Marek Dohnalik, Jan Kaczmarczyk, and Ali Takbiri Borujeni

161

Modeling of dissolution patterns for carbonate acidizing in the porous media Fereshteh Samadi, Feridun Esmaeilzadeh, and Dariush Mowla

167

ORAL SESSION 9

CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIA

Natural convection of miscible two phases due to density difference in saturated porous media Tetsuya Suekane, Taiyo Kitani, Koji Kusano, and Yoshihiro Deguchi

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Natural convection from inclined wall plumes in porous media Jian-Jun Shu

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Double diffusive convection due to a horizontal wavy surface in a porous medium Mahesha Narayana and Precious Sibanda

185

Analysis and experiment for Darcy flow convection in cylindrical metal foam Nihad Dukhan and Muntadher A. Al-Rammahi

191

On thermosolutal convection in micropolar fluid in porous medium: Soret-Dufour phenomenon Nidhi Goyal and Jaimala

197

ORAL SESSION 10

ADVANCES IN NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES

A finite volume method for the solution of fluid flows coupled with the mechanical behavior of compacting porous media Alessandro Dal Pizzol and Clovis R. Maliska

205

Lattice Boltzmann method for modeling heat and mass transfers during drying of deformable porous medium Hussein El Abrach, Hacen Dhahri, and Abdallah Mhimid

211

A finite difference, multipoint flux numerical approach to flow in porous media: Numerical examples Hossam Osman, Amgad Salama, Shuyu Sun, and Kai Bao

217

ORAL SESSION 11

METAL FOAM HEAT EXCHANGERS

Wet foams hydrophobized by amphiphiles to give Al2O3 porous ceramics Ashish Pokhrel, Jung Gyu Park, and Ik Jin Kim

225

Material and height effects on the heat transfer performance of metal foams cooled by air in forced convection Simone Mancin, Claudio Zilio, Andrea Diani, and Luisa Rossetto

231

Metal foam heat exchangers for thermal management of fuel cell systems M. Odabaee and K. Hooman

237

Influence of pore and strut shape on open cell metal foam bulk properties Prashant Kumar, Jean-Michel Hugo, Frederic Topin, and Jerome Vicente

243

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ORAL SESSION 12

TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIA (II)

Gas flow behavior in extremely low permeability rock Yu-Shu Wu and Cong Wang

251

Instability in sloping layered warm-water aquifers Robert McKibbin

257

ORAL SESSION 13

BIO TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIUM (I)

Development of active porous medium filters based on plasma textiles

Ivan A. Kuznetsov, Alexei V. Saveliev, Srinivasan Rasipuram, Andrey V. Kuznetsov, Alan Brown, and Warren Jasper

265

Adsorption of laminaribiose in an in-situ product recovery process Thomas Waluga and Stephan Scholl

271

Influence of microbial biofilms on reactive transport in porous media Robin Gerlach and Al. Cunningham

276

Effect of steady streaming on the flow of micropolar fluid through a contricted annulus D. Srikanth and D. Srinivasacharya

284

ORAL SESSION 14

BIOTRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIUM (II)

Chemical activation of gasification carbon residue for phosphate removal Sari Kilpimaa, Hanna Runtti, Ulla Lassi, and Toivo Kuokkanen

293

ORAL SESSION 15

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF POROUS MEDIA

Unconventional gas resources in the U.S.A. Jon Schumann and Shapour Vossoughi

301

Air cooling using a matrix of ceramic tubes M. Ali, O. Zeitoun, H. Al-Ansary, and A. Nuhait

307

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ORAL SESSION 16

POROUS MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS (II)

Experimental and numerical investigation of the velocity profiles through a porous medium downstream of a sharp bend Emma Kelly and Ronan Grimes

315

Tomographic immersed boundary method for permeability prediction of realistic porous media: Simulation and experimental validation

D.J. Lopez Penha, B. J. Geurts, M. Nordlund, A. K. Kuczaj, I. Zinovik, C. Winkelmann, and J. Mikhal

321

A geometric pore-scale model for predicting the permeability of 3D flow through fibrous porous media Sonia Woudberg

327

Analysis of vortex flow through porous media Fatemeh Hassanipour

333

ORAL SESSION 17

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF POROUS MEDIA

Application of macro-cellular SiC reactor to diesel engine-like injection and combustion conditions J. Cypris, M. Weclas, P. Greil, L. M. Schlier, N. Travitzky, and W. Zhang

341

Shale caprock integrity under carbon sequestration conditions Abiola Olabode, Lauren Bentley, and Mileva Radonjic

347

Analysis and treatment of industrial wastewater through chemical coagulation-adsorption process—A case study of Clariant Pakistan limited

Syed Farman Ali Shah, Abdul Karim Shah, Ahmad Mehdi, Aziza Aftab Memon, Khanji Harijan, and Zeenat M. Ali

353

Diesel spray interaction with highly porous structures for supporting of liquid distribution in space and its vaporization M. Weclas, J. Cypris, and T. M. A. Maksoud

359

Transport modeling of skin electroporation and the thermal behavior of the stratum corneum Sid Becker

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Author Index 371