This textbook provides a general overview of porous media flow, and introduces various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow. This textbook will be useful for the core course of "Flow through Porous media" for graduate and advanced graduate students in various engineering disciplines.
Dr. Arunn Narasimhan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His major research interests for the past fifteen years are heat and fluid flow in porous media and biological systems. His publications include eight invited book chapters (two in the Handbook of Porous Media), two invited review articles and over hundred peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences. He has also written few novels and popular science books in Tamil language.