Flows in porous media is a research area focused on the theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of fluid motion through heterogeneous porous structures, governed primarily by Darcy’s law and its extensions to multiphase, non-Newtonian, and reactive systems. It integrates continuum mechanics, transport theory, and pore-scale physics to describe pressure-driven and capillarity-driven flows, dispersion, and phase interactions in materials such as soils, rocks, biological tissues, and engineered porous media. Core topics include upscaling from pore to continuum scales, effective permeability and porosity, coupling with heat and mass transport, and numerical simulation for applications in hydrogeology, petroleum engineering, carbon sequestration, and environmental remediation.
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