“…Examples include safety and post-accident analysis of nuclear reactors [1e6], disposal of nuclear wastes [7], packed-bed reactors [8], enhancement of condensation [9,10], thermal energy storage [11], porous heat pipes [12,13], drying equipment [14], heat and moisture transfer through insulation materials [15], oil reservoir engineering [16e19], geothermal systems [20e22], etc. Comprehensive reviews on this subject are also available in the literature [6,14,21,23].…”