Providing the reader with a solid understanding of the fundamentals as well as an awareness of recent advances in properties and applications of cellular and porous materials, this handbook and ready reference covers all important analytical and numerical methods for characterizing and predicting thermal properties. In so doing it directly addresses the special characteristics of foam-like and hole-riddled materials, combining theoretical and experimental aspects for characterization purposes.

Preface.
List of Contributors.

1. Interfacial Heat Transport in Highly Permeable Media: A finite Volume Approach (Marcelo J.S. de Lemos and Marcelo B. Saito)

2. Effective Thermal Properties of Hollow-Sphere-Structures: A Finite Element Approach (Andreas Ochsner and Thomas Fiedler)

3. Thermal Properties of Composite Materials and Prous Media: Lattice-Based Monte Carlo Approaches (Irina V. Belova and Craeme E. Murch)

4. Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media: A Boundary Element Approach (Leopold Skerget, Renata Jecl, and Janja Kramer)

5. Analytical Methods for Heat Conduction in Composites and Porous Media (Vladimir V. Mityushev, Ekaterina Pesetskaya, and Sergei V. Rogosin)

6. Modeling of Composite Heat Transfer in Open-Cellular Porous Materials at High temperatures (Kouichi Kamiuto)

7. Thermal Conduction Through Porous Systems (Ramvir Singh)

8. Thermal Property o Lotus-Type Prous Copper and Application to Heat Sinks (tetsuro Ogushi, Hiroshi Chiba, Masakazu tane, and Hideo Nakajima)

9. Thermal Characerization of Open-celled Metal Foams by Direct Simulation (Shankar Krishnan, Suresh V. Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy)

10. Heat Transfer in Open-Cell Metal Foams Subjected to Oscillating Flow (Kai Choong Leong and Liwen Jin)

11. Radiative and Conductive Thermal Properties of Foams (Dominique baillis and Remi Coquard)

12. On the Application of Optimization Techniques to Heat Transfer in cellular Materials (Pablo A. Munoz-Rojas, Emilio C. Nelli Silva, Eduardo L. Cardoso, and Miguel Vaz Junior)

Index.