HEATING OF A LIQUID-SATURATED POROUS
MEDIUM BY AN ACOUSTIC FIELD

V. Sh. Shagapov, I. G. Khusainov, and
A. G. Yumaguzina

UDC 532.546:534.2

The function of a volume heat source for the process of 
heating of a porous medium by an acoustic field has been constructed. 
The dependences of the power of the heat source on the parameters 
of the wave field and the parameters determining the state of the 
porous medium have been analyzed.

Sterlitamak State Pedagogical Institute, Sterlitamak, 
Russia; email: aigul_str@mail.rb.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 11-16, January-February, 2003. 
Original article submitted November 5, 2001; revision submitted June 
6, 2002.