Preface to the Fifth EditionPreface to the Fourth EditionPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionNomenclature1 Mechanics of Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium1.1 Introduction1.2 Porosity1.3 Seepage Velocity and the Equation of Continuity1.4 Momentum Equation: Darcy's Law1.4.1 Darcy's Law: Permeability1.4.2 Deterministic Models Leading to Darcy's Law1.4.3 Statistical Models Leading to Darcy's Law1.5 Extensions of Darcy's Law1.5.1 Acceleration and Other Inertial Effects1.5.2 Quadratic Drag: Forchheimer's Equation1.5.3 Brinkman's Equation1.5.4 Non-Newtonian Fluid1.6 Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions1.7 Effects of Porosity Variation1.8 Turbulence in Porous Media1.9 Fractured Media, Deformable Media, and Complex Porous Media1.10 Bidisperse Porous Media2 Heat Transfer through a Porous Medium2.1 Energy Equation: Simple Case2.2 Energy Equation: Extensions to More Complex Situations2.2.1 Overall Thermal Conductivity of a Porous Medium2.2.2 Effects of Pressure Changes, and Viscous Dissipation2.2.3 Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium2.2.4 Thermal Dispersion2.2.5 Cellular Porous Media2.3 Oberbeck-Boussinesq Approximation2.4 Thermal Boundary Conditions2.5 Hele-Shaw Analogy2.6 Bioheat Transfer and Other Approaches3 Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows3.1 Multicomponent Flow: Basic Concepts3.2 Mass Conservation in a Mixture3.3 Combined Heat and Mass Transfer3.4 Effects of a Chemical Reaction3.5 Multiphase Flow3.5.1 Conservation of Mass3.5.2 Conservation of Momentum3.5.3 Conservation of Energy3.5.4 Summary: Relative Permeabilities3.6 Unsaturated Porous Media3.7 Electrodiffusion through Porous media3.8 Nanofluids4 Forced Convection4.1 Plane Wall with Prescribed Temperature4.2 Plane Wall with Prescribed Heat Flux4.3 Sphere and Cylinder: Boundary Layers4.4 Point Source and Line Source: Thermal Wakes4.5 Confined Flow4.6 Transient Effects4.6.1 Scale Analysis4.6.2 Wall with Constant Temperature4.6.3 Wall with Constant Heat Flux4.6.4 Other Configurations4.7 Effects of Inertia and Thermal Dispersion: External Flow4.8 Effects of Boundary Friction and Porosity Variation: External Flow4.9 Effects of Boundary Friction, Inertia, Porosity Variation, Viscous Dissipation, and Thermal Dispersion: Confined Flow4.10 Local Thermal Nonequilibrium4.11 Partly Porous Configurations4.12 Transversely Heterogeneous Channels and Pipes4.13 Thermal Development4.14 Surfaces Covered with Porous Layers4.15 Designed Porous Media4.16 Other Configurations or Effects4.16.1 Effect of Temperature-dependent Viscosity4.16.2 Oscillatory Flows, Counterflows4.16.3 Non-Newtonian Fluids4.16.4 Bidisperse Porous Media4.16.5 Other Flows, Other Effects4.17 Heatlines for Visualizing Convection4.18 Constructal Tree Networks: Flow Access in Volume-to-Point Structures4.18.1 The Fundamental Volume-to-Point Flow Problem4.18.2 The Elemental Volume4.18.3 The First Construct4.18.4 Higher-Order Constructs4.18.5 The Constructal Law of Design and Evolution in Nature4.19 Constructal Multiscale Flow Structures; Vascular Design: 4.20