POROUS MEDIA: HEAT AND MASSTRANSFER, TRANSPORT ANDMECHANICS -- NOTICE TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- MODELING REACTIVE TRANSPORT DRIVENBY SCALE DEPENDENT SEGREGATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SEGREGATION -- SEGREGATION IN URBAN ATMOSPHERIC MODELING -- REACTIVE TRANSPORT AND FLOW MODELING -- THE TRANSPORT EQUATION -- TRANSPORT MODELING -- BIMOLECULAR REACTIVE TRANSPORT -- NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS -- SEGREGATION INTENSITY MODEL -- APPLYING THE MODEL: EXAMPLES AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- INDUCED POROELASTIC AND THERMOELASTICSTRESS CHANGES WITHIN RESERVOIRS DURINGFLUID INJECTION AND PRODUCTION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STRESS CHANGE MEASUREMENT -- STRESS ARCHING EFFECTS -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Poroelastic Arching Ratios -- 3.3. Thermoelastic Arching Ratios -- 4. INDUCED STRESS CHANGE MODELING -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. Elasticity Field Equations -- 4.3. Theory of Strain Nuclei -- 4.4. Theory of Inclusions -- 5. THEORY OF INHOMOGENEITIES -- 6. CASE STUDY: EKOFISK OIL FIELD -- 6.1. Reservoir Characteristics -- 6.2. Geomechanical Properties -- 6.3. Induced Stress Change Analysis -- 7. CONCLUSION -- 8. NOMENCLATURE -- REFERENCES -- POROUS HYDROGELS -- ABSTRACT -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CLASSIFICATION OF THE POROUS HYDROGELS BY PORE SIZE -- 3. PREPARATIVE METHODS FOR POROUS HYDROGELS -- 3.1. Crosslinking Polymerization in the Presence of Substances that AreSolvents for Monomers, but Precipitants for Formed Polymer -- 3.2. Crosslinking Polymerization in Presence of Soluble Substances(Particles of Sugars, Salts) which Are Washed out from theHydrogel after Polymerization -- 3.3. Crosslinking Polymerization in the Presence of SubstancesReleasing Gases which Remain in the Resulting Hydrogel -- 3.4. Freeze-Sublimation of the Hydrogel Swollen in Water(Lyophilization of Swollen Hydrogel).

4. CHARACTERIZATION OF POROUS HYDROGELS -- 4.1. Mercury Porosimetry -- 4.2. BET Surfeace Area Measurements -- 4.3. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) -- 4.4. Confocal Microscopy -- 4.5. Diffusion Properties -- 4.6. Mechanical Properties -- 5. MODIFICATION OF POROUS HYDROGELS -- 6. AUTHORŚ EXPERIENCE WITH POROUS HYDROGELSPREPARED IN THE PRESENCE OF POROGEN PARTICLES -- 6.1. Porous Hydrogels (According to 3.2.) for Tissue Engine -- 6.2. Characterization of the Porous Hydrogels Prepared According to 3.2 -- 6.3. Characterization of through-Flow Properties of the Hydrogelswith Communicating Pores -- 7. PERSPECTIVE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 8. REFERENCES -- MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR THE STUDY OFDIFFUSION-LIMITED DRUG RELEASEFROM POROUS MATRICES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME DRUG RELEASE KINETIC EQUATIONS -- METHODS -- Menger Sponge -- Cubic Networks -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOMENCLATURE -- REFERENCES -- MODELING OF SURFACTANT ANDCONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SUMMARY OF REVIEWED MODELS -- 2.1. Surfactant and Contaminant Coupled Transport Model -- 2.2. Solute Transport Coupled with Two, Multi-Site Sorption Model -- 2.3. Multi-Component Reactive Transport Model -- 2.4. Multi-Component Multi-Phase Flow Model -- 2.5. UTCHEM Model -- 3. DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- LOADING FACTOR DETERMINATION FOR GASESTRANSPORTED ACROSS MESO-POROUSADSORBENT MEMBRANES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN POROUS MEMBRANE -- 2.1. Viscous Flow -- 2.2. Gas Diffusion -- 2.3. Knudsen Diffusion -- 2.4. Surface Diffusion -- 3. PERMEABILITY OF GAS -- 4. LOADING FACTOR DETERMINATION -- NOTATIONS -- REFERENCES -- GRANULAR BEDS COMPOSED OF DIFFERENTPARTICLE SIZES: EXPERIMENTAL ANDCFD APPROACHES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NUMERICAL SIMULATION.

3. POROSITY -- 4. HEAT EXCHANGE -- 5. PERMEABILITY -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PARTICLE TRANSPORT ANDDEPOSITION IN POROUS MEDIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 3. MATERIALS AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE -- 4. TRANSFER PROCESS AND SIZE EXCLUSION EFFECT -- 5. PARTICLE DISPERSION -- 6. PARTICLE DEPOSITION KINETICS - MODELLINGOF DEPOSITION FUNCTION -- 7. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- MODELING THE RELATION BETWEENCOMFORT AND PROTECTION OF CBRN-SUITS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PROCESSES -- Agent Vapor Breakthrough through Clothing -- Air Flow Around, through and Underneath Clothing -- Vapor Concentration and Deposition Distribution Underneath Clothing -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- SYMBOLS -- REFERENCES -- SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECT ONDOUBLE DIFFUSIVE NATURAL CONVECTIONIN A WAVY POROUS ENCLOSURE -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- 3. FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION -- 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.