Research

We are going to have a seminar on 'Theoretical investigations on the transport of momentum and heat in porous media' on 10th April 2014, Thursday, given by Dr Nader Karimi from the University of Glasgow.

Abstract and biography are given below.

Date & Time: 1:00-2:00 PM, 10th April 2014, Thursday

Venue: Room 355 (J10), James Watt Building South

Tea/coffee/biscuits before the start.

 

 

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Abstract

Transfer of heat and fluids in porous media find a wide application in many natural and man-made systems. The classical pertinent areas include geothermal technology, enhanced oil recovery, hydrology, catalyst convertors, cooling technologies and heat exchangers. Further, the recent interests in underground carbon storage and biotechnology have introduced additional applications for transport in porous media and motivated a new wave of research activities. Achieving higher accuracy in temperature predictions is one of the main objectives of these attempts. Inevitably, this calls for more sophisticated modelling and less restrictive analyses. This seminar reviews some recent theoretical and numerical investigations of convective heat transfer in porous media.  An emphasis is put on the improvements made in the prediction of the temperature distributions through theoretical models.

Biography

Dr Nader Karimi completed his PhD on stability of reactive flows at university of Melbourne, Australia. He subsequently conducted experimental and theoretical research on various thermal systems at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany and University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Karimi Joint University of Glasgow in late 2013. He is currently interested in both renewable and non-renewable energy and power generation technologies. In particular, his research includes theoretical and experimental studies on gas turbine combustion, transport in porous media and thermo-geology.

First published: 24 October 2013