Recently published papers involving two distinct models of turbulence in a porous medium are discussed, together with related matters including inertial effects, lateral momentum transfer and spin-up, nonlinear drag, and the detection of the onset of turbulence.

1.
Travkin, V. S., Hu, K., and Catton, I., 1999, “Turbulent Kinetic Energy and Dissipation Rate Equation Models for Momentum Transport in Porous Media,” Proceedings, 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 18–23, 1999, San Francisco, California, FEDSM99-7275, pp. 1–7.
2.
Antohe
,
B. V.
, and
Lage
,
J. L.
,
1997
, “
A General Two-Equation Macroscopic Turbulence Model for Incompressible Flow in Porous Media
,”
Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
,
40
, pp.
3013
3024
.
3.
Nakayama
,
A.
, and
Kuwahara
,
F.
,
1999
, “
A Macroscopic Turbulence Model for Flow in a Porous Medium
,”
ASME J. Fluids Eng.
,
121
, pp.
427
433
.
4.
Masuoka
,
T.
, and
Takatsu
,
Y.
,
1996
, “
Turbulence Model for Flow Through Porous Media
,”
Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
,
39
, pp.
2803
2809
.
5.
Lage, J. L., 1998, “The Fundamental Theory of Flow Through Permeable Media: From Darcy to Turbulence,” Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, D. B. Ingham and I. Pop, eds., Elsevier Science, Oxford, pp. 1–30.
6.
Kuwahara
,
F.
,
Kameyama
,
Y.
,
Yamashita
,
S.
, and
Nakayama
,
A.
,
1998
, “
Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Flow in Porous Media Using a Spatially Periodic Array
,”
Journal of Porous Media
,
1
, pp.
47
55
.
7.
Pedras, M. H. J., and de Lemos, M. J. S., 1999, “On Volume and Time Averaging of Transport Equations for Turbulent Flow in Porous Media,” Proceedings, 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 18–23, 1999, San Francisco, California, FEDSM99-7273, pp. 1–6.
8.
de Lemos
,
M. J. S.
, and
Pedras
,
M. H. J.
,
2000
, “
On the Definition Of Turbulent Kinetic Energy for Flow in Porous Media
,”
Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer
,
27
, pp.
211
220
.
9.
Nield
,
D. A.
,
1991
, “
The Limitations of the Brinkman-Forchheimer Equation in Modeling Flow in a Saturated Porous Medium and at an Interface
,”
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow
,
12
, pp.
269
272
.
10.
Nield, D. A., and Bejan, A., 1992/1999, Convection in Porous Media, Springer-Verlag, New York.
11.
Nield
,
D. A.
, and
Lage
,
J. L.
,
1997
, “
Discussion of a Discussion by K. Vafai and S. J. Kim
,”
ASME J. Heat Transfer
,
119
, pp.
195
197
.
12.
Whitaker, S., 1999, The Method of Volume Averaging, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
13.
Antohe, B. V., and Lage, J. L., 1999, “Darcy’s Experiments and the Transition to Nonlinear Flow Regime,”Proceedings, 33rd National Heat Transfer Conference, August 15–17, 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico, NHTC99-180, pp. 1–7.
14.
Nield
,
D. A.
,
1994
, “
Modelling High-Speed Flow of a Compressible Fluid in a Porous Medium
,”
Transp. Porous Media
,
14
, pp.
85
88
.
15.
Nield, D. A., 2000, “Resolution of a Paradox Involving Viscous Dissipation and Nonlinear Drag in a Porous Medium,” Transp. Porous Media, in press.
16.
Nield
,
D. A.
,
1989
, “
Spin-Up in a Saturated Porous Medium
,”
Transp. Porous Media
,
4
, pp.
495
497
.
17.
Masuoka, T., 1999, “Some Aspects of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Media,” Proceedings, 5th ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering Conference, March 15–19, 1999, San Diego, California, AJTE99-6304, pp. 1–14.
18.
Dybbs, A., and Edwards, R. V., 1984, “A New Look at Porous Media Fluid Mechanics—Darcy to Turbulent,” Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, J. Bear and V. Carapcioglu, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 199–256.
19.
Takatsu
,
Y.
, and
Masuoka
,
T.
,
1998
, “
Turbulent Phenomena in Flow Through Porous Media
,”
Journal of Porous Media
,
1
, pp.
243
251
.
20.
Nield
,
D. A.
,
1997
, “
Comments on ‘Turbulence Model for Flow Through Porous Media’
,”
Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
,
40
, pp.
2449
2449
.
21.
Spencer
,
E. A.
,
Heitor
,
M. V.
, and
Castro
,
I. P.
,
1995
, “
Intercomparison of measurements and computations of flow through a contraction and a diffuser
,”
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation
,
6
, pp.
3
14
.
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