Mark Your Calendar
Fourth International Conference on Porous
Media and its Applications in Science,
Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012
Potsdam, Germany
Chair: Prof. Kambiz Vafai, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside, USA
Venue: Potsdam, Germany – A UNESCO World Heritage
Site just outside of Berlin
Information: www.engconfintl.org/12ap.html
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
Fourth International Conference on Porous Media and
its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012 Potsdam, Germany
General Announcement/
Call for Abstracts
4th International Conference on Porous Media and its
Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
June 17-22, 2012
Potsdam, Germany
Conference Program Committee
Chair: Prof. Kambiz Vafai
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Bourns Hall A363
Riverside, California 92521-0425
Tel: 1-951-827-2135 - Fax: 1-951-827-2899
E-mail: vafai@engr.ucr.edu
Co-Chairs
Prof. Adrian Bejan (USA)
Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Materials Science
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27706
Tel: 1-919-660-5310 - Fax: 1-919-660 8963
E-mail: abejan@acpub.duke.edu
Prof. Akira Nakayama (Japan)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Shizuoka University
3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432
Japan
Tel: 81-53-478-1049 - Fax: 81-53-478-1049
E-mail: tmanaka@eng.shizuoka.ac.jp
Synopsis
We have organized and held three very successful conferences on Porous Media and its Applications in Science,
Engineering and Industry in 1996 (Kona, Hawaii), in 2007 (Kauai, Hawaii) with participants from well over 20
countries, and in 2010 (Montecatini, Italy) with approximately 120 participants.
This conference will build on the 2010 Italian conference so that it reflects the research done internationally in the
currently active areas of the topic. The presence of the highly successful Journal of Porous Media and the Special
Topics and Reviews in Porous Media-an International Journal and editions of the very well received Handbook of
Porous Media as well as the book entitled Porous Media: Applications in Biological Systems and Biotechnology will act
as an additional impetus to further galvanize this conference.
The 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, underground spreading of chemical waste, nuclear waste
repository, geothermal engineering, grain storage and enhanced recovery of petroleum reservoirs. Radiative heat
transfer and multiphase transport processes in porous media, both with and without phase change, have gained
extensive attention in recent years. This is due to the wide range of applicability of these research areas in
contemporary technology. These applications include, but are not restricted to, areas such as geothermal engineering,
building thermal insulation, chemical catalytic reactors, packed cryogenic microsphere insulation,petroleum reservoirs,
direct contact heat exchangers, coal combustors, nuclear waste repositories, and heat pipe technology.
Several applications related to porous media require a detailed analysis of convective heat transfer in different
geometrical shapes, orientations and configurations. Based on the specific applications, the flow in the porous medium
may be internal or external. Most of the studies in porous media carried out until the past two decades are based on
the Darcy flow model, which in turn is based on the assumption of creeping flow through an infinitely extended uniform
medium. However, it is now generally recognized that non-Darcian effects are quite important for certain applications.
Different models have been introduced for studying and accounting for such non-Darcian effects as the inertial,
boundary, and variable porosity effects. The ultimate goal of studies in convective heat transfer in porous media is to
determine the dimensionless heat transfer coefficient, the Nusselt number. A considerable amount of research has
been carried out to accomplish this, and empirical correlations for the Nusselt number for a variety of configurations
and boundary conditions have been established, with certain limitation, of a wide variety of current technological
applications. Many industrial operations in the areas of chemical and metallurgical engineering involve the passage of
a fluid stream through a packed bed of particulate solids to obtain extended solid fluid interfacial areas or good fluid
mixing. Typical examples of applications involving such systems include catalytic and chromatographic reactions,
packed absorption and distillation towers, ion exchange columns, packed filters, pebble-type heat exchanger,
petroleum reservoirs, geothermal operations and many others. The design of these systems is decided by
mechanisms of pressure drop, fluid flow and heat and mass transfer governing the process in the packed bed
arrangement. Considerable attention has been paid to the aforementioned aspects because of their direct influence on
the optimization and stability of the design of these systems.
Developments in modeling transport phenomena in porous media have advanced several pertinent areas, such as
biology. As such the conference will also entertain papers related to bio transport in porous media as well as research
related to turbulent modeling in porous media.
Preliminary Conference Outline
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Natural and Forced Convection in Porous Media
Evaporation, Condensation, Capillary Effects and Reactive Flow in Porous Media
Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Media
Conduction in Porous Media
Combined Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
Particle Transport and Deformable Porous Bodies
Advanced Mathematical Approaches to the Modeling of Porous Media
Industrial and Environmental Heat Transfer and Flow in Porous Media
Process Heat Transfer
Advances in Numerical Techniques
Experimental and Measuring Techniques
Turbulence in Porous Media
Particle Migration and Deposition in Porous Media
Bio Transport in Porous Media
Material Processing Applications
International Organizing Committee
Prof. Antonio Barletta (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Prof. Jacob Bear (Technion, Israel)
Prof. Adrian Bejan (Duke University, USA)
Prof. Ping Cheng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Prof. Faruk Civan (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Dr. Fabien Frizon (CEA Marcoule, France)
Dr. Robin Gerlach (Montana State University, USA)
Prof. S. Majid Hassanizadeh (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Prof. Reiner Helmig (Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany)
Prof. Rudolf Hilfer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Prof. Massoud Kaviany (University of Michigan, USA)
Prof. Arzhang Khalili (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)
Prof. Andrey Kuznetsov (North Carolina State University, USA)
Louis-Philippe Lefebvre (National Research Council, Canada)
Dr. Marcelo J. S. de Lemos (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil)
Dr. Sylvie Lorente (INSA, France)
Prof. Oronzio Manca (Seconda Universita’ delgi Studi di Napoli,Italy)
Prof. Jacob H. Masliyah (University of Alberta, Canada)
Prof. Robert McKibbin (Massey University at Albany, New Zealand)
Prof. A. F. Miguel (University of Evora, Portugal)
Prof. W. J. Minkowycz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Prof. Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Prof. Kader Mojtabi (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
Prof. Akira Nakayama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Prof. Dimos Poulikakos (ETH, Switzerland)
Dr. D.A.S. Rees (University of Bath, England)
Prof. A. Heitor Reis (University of Évora, Portugal)
Prof. N. Rudraiah (Bangalore University, India)
Prof. Phadungsak Rattanadecho (Thammasat University, Thailand)
Prof. Manolis Tomadakis (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Dr. Marc Prat (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France)
Dr. Michel Quintard (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France)
Invited Speakers
Prof. A. Bejan (Duke University, USA) Keynote speaker
Prof. Jacob Bear (Technion, Israel) Keynote speaker
Prof. Ping Cheng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Keynote speaker
Prof. Faruk Civan (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Dr. Robin Gerlach (Montana State University, USA)
Prof. S. Majid Hassanizadeh (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Keynote speaker
Prof. Rudolf Hilfer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Dr. Nico Hotz (Duke University, USA)
Prof. Arzhang Khalili (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)
Prof. A. Kuznetsov (North Carolina State University, USA)
Dr. Marcelo J. S. de Lemos (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica – ITA, Brazil)
Dr. Sylvie Lorente (INSA, France)
Prof. J. H. Masliyah (University of Alberta, Canada)
Prof. Robert McKibbin (Massey University at Albany, New Zealand)
Prof. Akira Nakayama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Prof. Neda Nazemifard (University of Alberta, Canada)
Dr. D.A.S. Rees (University of Bath, England)
Prof. N. Rudraiah (Bangalore University, India)
Dr. Marc Prat (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France)
Dr. Michel Quintard (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France)
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts (maximum one page) are solicited from participants to allow better placement in the discussion sessions.
Poster presentations are welcome. Oral presentations are limited to plenary lectures only. The deadline for submission
of abstracts is as follows:
Abstracts for Oral Presentations
November 1, 2011
Abstracts for Poster Presentations
February 1, 2012
Participants are expected to follow directions on the ECI website (www.engconfintl.org/10ap.html) and submit their
abstracts electronically. If any problems with electronic submission arise, please contact ECI (info@engconfintl.org).
Conference Publication
A program book including abstracts of all presentations will be distributed to attendees at the conference.
In addition, a proceedings of accepted papers will be distributed on site to all attendees. The proceedings will be
published by the American Institute of Physics.
The deadline for manuscript submission is March 1, 2012. Details on format, page limits, etc. will be posted here after
abstract acceptance notifications are sent out. Acceptance notices will be sent to authors in mid-December.
Note that at least one author must be registered for the conference by April 1 for a paper to be included in the
proceedings.
Engineering Conferences International
Engineering Conferences International (ECI) is a not-for-profit global engineering conferences program, originally
established in 1962, that provides opportunities for the exploration of problems and issues of concern to engineers and
scientists from many disciplines.
The format of the conference provides morning and late afternoon or evening sessions in which major presentations
are made. Poster sessions will be scheduled for discussion as well. Available time is included during the afternoons for
ad hoc meetings, informal discussions, and/or recreation. This format is designed to enhance rapport among
participants and promote dialogue on the development of the meeting. We believe the conferences have been
instrumental in generating ideas and disseminating information to a greater extent than is possible through more
conventional forums.
All participants are expected both to attend the entire conference and to contribute actively to the discussions. The
recording of lectures and presentations is forbidden. As ECI conferences take place in an informal atmosphere, casual
clothing is the usual attire.
Conference Venue – Potsdam, Germany
Without any doubt, Potsdam is one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Integrated into the attractive cultural
ambience, the capital city of the State of Brandenburg is a natural destination to satisfy the most varied interests and
demands.
Potsdam's most popular sight is the Schloss Sanssouci palace located in the park to which it gives its name. However,
there are far more attractions than the former summer residence of Frederick the Great and the Sanssouci Park to
make your visit worthwhile. The Alexandrowka, the Holländisches Viertel (the Dutch quarter) and the Weaver's quarter
- the historic sections of the city - provide the flair of a city steeped in European tradition.
The Babelsberg Filmpark, the Biosphere nature experience exhibition, the National Horticulture Show Park (known as
the BUGA Park), and the Krongut Bornstedt are all special attractions which will make your visit to Potsdam a very
pleasurable experience.
Potsdam's cultural landscape is also one of the most beautiful of Germany's world heritage sites and considered in
combination with Berlin, it is also the largest. The ensemble effect of the parks is really a unique one, a system which
was created over the centuries by order of Prussian electors, kings and emperors. Great architects, famous artists and
landscape architects left their mark on the complete artistic creation of gardens and buildings interwoven in diverse
fashion with pathways and vantage points.
Since 1990 large areas of Potsdam were granted World Heritage status by UNESCO. That includes the Sanssouci
Park, Neuer Garten, Babelsberg and Glienicke with their palaces, the Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) and also the
palace and Park Sacrow along with its Church of the Redeemer. Fourteen further listed areas were added to
Potsdam's world cultural heritage list in 1999. Among them were Lindstedt palace and park, the Russian colony
Alexandrowka, the Pfingstberg with the Belvedere and the Sternwarte astronomical observatory in the Babelsberg
park.
A more recent castle is the Schloss Cecilienhof, located in the Neuer Garten, a park laid out between 1787 and 1791.
The castle itself was built between 1914 and 1917 as an English-style country manor and served as the summer
residence of the Hohenzollern family. It is best known as the site of the 1945 Potsdam conference. This is where
Churchill, Truman and Stalin met to discuss the political situation after the defeat of Germany that same year. The
castle is now a hotel and restaurant.
Another attraction in Potsdam is the Filmpark Babelberg. This is were some of Germany's most famous films were
created, including the 1927 masterpiece Metropolis and the 1930 film The Blue Angel, a movie featuring Marlene
Dietrich. At the time, it was Europe's Hollywood. After the Nazis came to power, many actors and artists moved to the
US. You can visit the sets from old films, including the submarine U-boat. The park also features stuntmen and a
display of special effects.
Potsdam, the capital of the Brandenburg state, is not an actual part of the city of Berlin but it is only 24 km from
Germany's capital – a short train or bus ride away. Berlin, is, of course, one of the greatest European cities – lively
and dynamic. We suggest that you consider extending your stay and spend some post conference time enjoying
Berlin.
More information on Potsdam/Berlin can be found at www.potsdam.de, www.aviewoncities.com/berlin/potsdam.htm,
and www.berlin.de/english/visitors/index.html.
Seminaris SeeHotel, Potsdam, Germany
The conference will be held at the Seminaris Seehotel Potsdam, An der Pirschneide 40, D-14471 Potsdam, Germany
(www.seminaris.de). For the conference period (nights of Sunday, June 17 through Friday, June 22), all room
reservations for conference participants will be made through Engineering Conferences International. A reservation
form will be available when registration opens for those who wish to arrive prior to the conference or stay after the
conference is concluded.
The hotel (225 rooms) is on the western edge of Potsdam, directly on Lake Templiner. All rooms have shower/bath,
WC, hairdryer, desk, telephone with fax and computer/modem connection, satellite television, radio and minibar.
Some non-smoking rooms are available as is parking. There is a business office with photocopy and fax services and
the hotel also offers a fitness and wellness area with a swimming pool, Finnish sauna, Turkish bath, solariums, and
bowling/game center. Bicycles are available for hire and outside there are walking and jogging routes, playgrounds for
badminton, volleyball and basketball, rowing, sailing, surfing, and fishing.
Transportation
Information on transportation will be updated as the completion of Brandenberg International Airport concludes.
Meanwhile, while Brandenberg International Airport construction is underway, Berlin's Tegel is a convenient, recently
revamped, passenger-friendly airport with easy-reach services. You will find it quite simple to make your way to the
Public Transport connections which will take you into town. City and transport maps are available at the Airport's
Tourist Information Centre from Berlin Tourismus Marketing. Information on Berlin airports can be found at www.berlinairport.de.
To get into central Berlin by bus: Bus 109, 128, X9, TXL
Bus connections to the underground and Zoo Station (central Station near the Ku'damm area) are located just outside
the airport terminal. Connections can be made for trains to Potsdam.
Route 1: Bus X9 to U6 Jakob-Kaiser-Platz then change to the underground from where you can reach any destination.
Route 2: Bus X9 and 109 to the Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn (underground) and S-Bahn (surface rail).
Tourist information is available at the nearby Europa Centre and underground maps are widely displayed on ticket
vending machines, in the underground and inside the trains.
A Taxi ride to Central Berlin (East or West) will cost about € 15.00 - 20.00.
The Potsdam ICE/IC/EC station is 5 km away. Those coming from Berlin to Potsdam by local train would exit at the
Potsdam-Pirscheide station (800 meters from the hotel).
By auto:
From the north: Coming from A24 (Hamburg/Rostock) to the A10 (Berliner Ring) and exit at “Potsdam Nord”. From the
west: Coming from the A2 (Hanover) to the A10, exit at Gross Kreutz.
From the south and east: Coming from the A9/A13/A12 (Leipzig, Dresden, Frankfurt/O.) to the A10, exit Michendorf.
Once in Potsdam, follow the hotel guiding system (green). From B1, the hotel’s own approach road leads directly to
the hotel. See the map on the Seminar web site (www.seminaris.com)
Conference Fees
The conference fee is all-inclusive. It includes registration, accommodations, meals (with the exception of one dinner),
taxes and gratuities from the night of Sunday, June 17 to the lunch of Friday, June 22, 2012. Incidental fees (telephone
calls, faxes, equipment rentals, spa, bar, mini-bar, etc.) are billed to your personal account by the hotel.
ALL PARTICIPANTS (INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, SESSION CHAIRS AND
INVITED SPEAKERS) ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER.
In mid-2011 we will post estimates of the conference fees in Euro in the following categories:
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Participant (single occupancy or sharing room with a guest; guest fee additional)
Participant (sharing a room with another participant)
Bona fide Graduate Student (sharing a room with another student)
Final fees will be in US dollars based on the latest exchange rate. We expect to post the final fees in January
2012 when the preliminary program is completed.