Transport phenomena in porous media contains 17 chapters and represents the collective work of 27 of the worlds leading experts from 12 countries in heat transfer in porous media the recent intensive research in this area has substantially raised the expectations for numerous new practical applications and this makes the book a most timely addition to the existing literature it includes recent major developments in both the fundamentals and applications and provides valuable . It is of critical significance to understand these phenomena accounting for the dynamical processes and structure deformation taking place in the inner pores as one of the most important topics in the area of porous media in this chapter a series of different experimental observations and associated theoretical investigations have been conducted to understand the transport phenomena at the pore scale level including the transport phenomena with without phase change and chemical reaction . Transport phenomena in porous media ii is the second volume in a series emphasising the fundamentals and applications of research in porous media it contains 16 interrelated chapters of controversial and in some cases conflicting research over a wide range of topics the first volume of this series published in 1998 met with a very favourable reception. Transport phenomena in porous media aspects of micro macro behaviour 123 yasuaki ichikawa okayama university okayama japan aps selvadurai mcgill university montreal canada isbn 978 3 642 25332 4 e isbn 978 3 642 25333 1 doi 101007 978 3 642 25333 1 springer heidelberg dordrecht london new york library of congress control number 2012930123 c springer verlag berlin heidelberg 2012 this