Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry

CBET-1153500PI：Vafai流体传输领域的开创性工作以及多孔介质中热传输的某些方面可以追溯到本世纪初。近几十年来，流体饱和多孔介质中的对流换热因其在隔热工程、地热储中水的运动、热管、电子冷却、生物应用、化学废物地下扩散、核废物库、直接接触式换热器、地热工程、粮食储存、燃烧和提高石油气藏采收率等方面的广泛应用而受到广泛关注。这是由于这些研究领域在当代技术中的广泛适用性。多孔介质中的辐射换热和多相传输过程，无论有无相变，也都得到了广泛的关注。1996年在夏威夷科纳、2007年在夏威夷考艾岛和2010年在意大利蒙特卡蒂尼举行了三次关于多孔介质及其在科学、工程和工业中的应用的非常成功的会议。世界各地的多位研究人员出席了这些会议。这次会议是在过去三次会议的基础上举行的，以反映国际上在该专题目前活跃的领域所做的研究。非常成功的《多孔介质杂志》以及广受欢迎的《多孔介质手册》和《多孔介质：在生物系统和生物技术中的应用》两个版本的出版，进一步推动了本次会议的召开。高质量的论文将被考虑提交给《多孔介质杂志》和《多孔介质中的专题和评论》--一份国际期刊和其他在多孔介质领域的领先期刊。本次会议将通过与该领域专家的互动，阐明多孔介质领域的各种悬而未决的问题。本次会议将于2012年6月17日至22日在德国波茨坦举行。本次会议将召集多孔介质领域各方面的世界专家。该领域的专家将聚集在一个理想的环境中，讨论最先进的技术和各种有争议的问题。这些深入讨论的结果将对专家和该领域的研究人员都有很大的帮助。来自不同学科的专家作为组委会成员和演讲者参加了会议。来自不同学科的一些相对年轻的研究人员将参加这次会议。这次会议的影响范围更广，将涵盖机械工程、化学工程、土木工程、核工程、生物医学工程和水文学等领域。预计一篇基于本次会议结果的评论文章将发表在与多孔介质研究的最新进展及其未来影响相关的主要期刊之一上。

CBET-1153500PI: VafaiThe pioneering works in the area of fluid transport as well as some aspects of heat transport in porous media go back to the beginning of this century. Convective heat transfer in fluid-saturated porous media has gained considerable attention in recent decades due to its relevance in a wide range of applications such as thermal insulation engineering, water movements in geothermal reservoirs, heat pipes, electronics cooling, bio applications, underground spreading of chemical waste, nuclear waste repositories, direct contact heat exchangers geothermal engineering, grain storage, combustion and enhanced recovery of petroleum reservoirs. This is due to the wide range of applicability of these research areas in contemporary technology. Radiative heat transfer and multiphase transport processes in porous media, both with and without phase change, have also gained extensive attention. Three highly successful conferences on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry were held in 1996 in Kona, Hawaii, and in 2007 in Kauai, Hawaii, and in 2010 in Montecatini, Italy. Various researchers in porous media worldwide attended these conferences. This conference is built on the last three conferences to reflect the research done internationally in the currently active areas of the topic. The presence of the highly successful Journal of Porous Media and both editions of the very well received Handbook of Porous Media and the book entitled Porous Media: Applications in Biological Systems and Biotechnology creates an additional impetus to further galvanize this conference. Papers of high quality will be considered for submission to the Journal of Porous Media and Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media-an International Journal and other leading journals in the field of porous media. This conference will clarify various outstanding issues in the field of porous media through interactions with experts in this field. This conference will be held on Potsdam, Germany from June 17 to 22, 2012.This conference will convene world experts in various aspects of the field of Porous Media. The experts in the field will convene in an ideal setting and discuss the state of the art and various controversial issues. The results of these in depth discussions will very helpful to both the experts as well as the researchers in the field.Experts from various disciplines participate in the conference as members of the organizing committee and as speakers. A number of relatively younger researchers from different disciplines will be involved in this conference. The broader impact of this conference will cover fields of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Hydrology. It is anticipated that a review article based on the results of this conference will be published in one of the leading journals related to Recent Advances in Porous Media Research and its Future Implications.