Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media Numerical and Experimental Approaches

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue brings together recent research advances in fields related to mass and heat transfer in porous media. It is a timely topic with a renewed interest in understanding transfer processes in applications such as CO₂ sequestration, solar collectors, fuel cells, biomass gasification, heat exchangers, geothermal energy, and oil-recovery methods. The subject of mass and heat transfer in porous media has been gained ground and attracted considerable attention for its broad range of engineering applications. However, there are still areas with a lack of works and fundamental understanding such as applications of nanofluids, phase change, interfacial flows, and thermal dispersion. These need to be investigated experimentally and numerically to fully understand the behavior and efficiency of these transfer processes. 

Our effort in this special issue is to expand the knowledge of mass and heat transfer to tackle practical challenges and make informed decisions in project development. Moreover, it is also important to re-examine and adapt the fundamentals of transfer processes in porous media at the system level, for instance, in environmental and industrial applications, thermal conversion, and storage systems.

Topics of interest include:

• Applications of heat and fluid flow in renewable energy
• Physical modeling of complex phenomena in porous media
• Fluid flows and heat transfer processes in geothermal reservoirs
• Rock-fluid interactions, phase changes, and subsurface flows
• Applications of machine learning for mass and/or heat transfer in porous media
• Applications of nanofluid in porous media to enhance the transfer processes

The special issue also welcomes reviews and articles about novel experimental and modeling of emerging technology pertinent to mass and/or heat transfer in porous media.

Dr. Mohammad Hossein Doranehgard
Dr. Tran Son
Guest Editors

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• Heat transfer
• Porous media
• Renewable energy
• Petroleum engineering
• Nanofluids
• Interfacial flows