Abstract: Many important technological and natural processes involving flow through porous media are characterized by large filtration velocity. It is important to know when the transition from the linear ...

Abstract: Previous reports of experiments performed with water (Fund et at., 1987 and Kececioglu and Jiang, 1994) indicated that beyond the Forchheimer regime the rate of change of the hydrostatic pressure ...

Abstract: A heat exchanger, using mechanically compressed microporous matrices, is being developed for cooling high power electronics. The thermal efficiency of this new device depends on the hydraulic ...