This book is one of the first devoted to an account of theories of thermal convection which
involve local thermal non-equilibrium effects including a concentration on microfluidic
effects. The text introduces convection with local thermal non-equilibrium effects in
extraordinary detail making it easy for readers newer to the subject area to understand. This
book is unique in the fact that it addresses a large number of convection theories and provides
many new results which are not available elsewhere. This book will be useful to researchers
from engineering fluid mechanics and applied mathematics particularly those interested in
microfluidics and porous media.
