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Journal of Porous Media

ISSN for PRINT: 1091-028X

Institutional price:	$713.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2002, Volume5

64 pages

Issue price - $92.00

Heat and Mass Transfer in Tubes: An Analysis Using the Method of Volume Averaging

Fabrice Golfier
Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, and Institut Francais du Petrole, 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France

Michel Quintard
Institut Francais du Petrole, 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France

Stephen Whitaker
Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of California, Davis, California, USA

ABSTRACT

In this study, we use the method of volume averaging to predict the exchange coefficient associated with steady laminar flow in a tube. This allows us to compare theory with an exact solution. Good agreement is obtained between the theory and the exact solution for the asymptotic condition, and this provides support for the simplifications that are made in the closure problem for transport processes in porous media.