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Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Nomenclature; Chapter 1: Mechanics of Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Porosity; 1.3 Seepage Velocity and the Equation of Continuity; 1.4 Momentum Equation: Darcyś Law; 1.4.1 Darcyś Law: Permeability; 1.4.2 Deterministic Models Leading to Darcyś Law; 1.4.3 Statistical Models Leading to Darcyś Law; 1.5 Extensions of Darcyś Law; 1.5.1 Acceleration and Other Inertial Effects.

1.5.2 Quadratic Drag: Forchheimerś Equation1.5.3 Brinkmanś Equations; 1.5.4 Non-Newtonian Fluid; 1.6 Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions; 1.7 Effects of Porosity Variation; 1.8 Turbulence in Porous Media; 1.9 Fractured Media, Deformable Media, and Complex Porous Structures; 1.10 Bidisperse Porous Media; Chapter 2: Heat Transfer Through a Porous Medium; 2.1 Energy Equation: Simple Case; 2.2 Energy Equation: Extensions to More Complex Situations; 2.2.1 Overall Thermal Conductivity of a Porous Medium; 2.2.2 Effects of Pressure Changes and Viscous Dissipation.

2.2.3 Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium2.2.4 Thermal Dispersion; 2.2.5 Cellular Porous Media; 2.2.6 Heat Wave Theory; 2.3 Oberbeck-Boussinesq Approximation; 2.4 Thermal Boundary Conditions; 2.5 Hele-Shaw Analogy; 2.6 Bioheat Transfer; 2.7 Other Approaches, Numerical Methods; Chapter 3: Mass Transfer in a Porous Medium: Multicomponent and Multiphase Flows; 3.1 Multicomponent Flow: Basic Concepts; 3.2 Mass Conservation in a Mixture; 3.3 Combined Heat and Mass Transfer; 3.4 Effects of a Chemical Reaction; 3.5 Multiphase Flow; 3.5.1 Conservation of Mass; 3.5.2 Conservation of Momentum.

3.5.3 Conservation of Energy3.5.4 Summary: Relative Permeabilities; 3.6 Unsaturated Porous Media; 3.7 Electrodiffusion Through Porous Media; 3.8 Nanofluids; 3.8.1 Property Variations; 3.8.2 Processes Associated with the Smallness of Nanoparticles; 3.8.2.1 The Buongiorno Model; 3.8.2.2 Conservation Equations for a Nanofluid; 3.8.2.3 Conservation Equations for a Porous Medium Saturated by a Nanofluid; Chapter 4: Forced Convection; 4.1 Plane Wall with Prescribed Temperature; 4.2 Plane Wall with Constant Heat Flux; 4.3 Sphere and Cylinder: Boundary Layers.

4.4 Point Source and Line Source: Thermal Wakes4.5 Confined Flow; 4.6 Transient Effects; 4.6.1 Scale Analysis; 4.6.2 Wall with Constant Temperature; 4.6.3 Wall with Constant Heat Flux; 4.6.4 Other Configurations; 4.7 Effects of Inertia and Thermal Dispersion: External Flow; 4.8 Effects of Boundary Friction and Porosity Variation: Exterior Flow; 4.9 Effects of Boundary Friction, Inertia, Porosity Variation, Thermal Dispersion, and Axial Conduction: Confined Flow; 4.10 Local Thermal Nonequilibrium; 4.11 Partly Porous Configurations; 4.12 Transversely Heterogeneous Channels and Pipes.

In its expanded 4th edition, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to convection in porous media, with some 2,000 new references and coverage of current research in nanofluids, cellular porous materials, strong heterogeneity, pulsating flow and more.