Basic Concepts Porous Medium Definition Porosity Percolation and Tortuosity Volume Averaging Procedure Heat Conduction in Porous Media Introduction Porous Medium Energy Equation Effective Stagnant Thermal Conductivity Unsteady Heat Conduction Aspects Heat Generation Effects Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Effects Fluid Flow through Porous Media Historical Overview and Darcy Law Permeability and Form Coefficient Viscometry and Permeametry Protocol for Permeability Measurement Flow Transition Brinkman Effect Generalized Momentum Equation Hydrodynamic Dispersion Advanced Topics Introduction to Turbulent Flow Forced Convection through Porous Medium Energy balance under flow Forced Convection in Porous Medium over a Flat Plate Forced Convection in Porous Medium Channel Other Forced Convection Configurations Transient Effects Heat Transfer Enhancement Aspects Natural Convection through Porous Medium Basic Problem Natural Convection Boundary Layers Natural Convection inside Porous Enclosures Mixed and Double-Diffusive Convection Porous Medium Aspects of Biological Systems Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-mass Transport Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-heat Transport Bio-Convection Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Medium The Radiative Transfer Equation (R TE) Radiative Property Measurement Solving the RTE Coupling ofRTE with other Heat Transfer Modes Advanced Topics Bi-disperse and Fractal Porous Media Two-phase Flow through Porous Media Variable Viscosity Porous Medium Flows Upscaling Methodology Applications in Manufacturing Combustion in Inert Porous Media Suggested Reading Bibliography Medium Energy balance under flow Forced Convection in Porous Medium over a Flat Plate Forced Convection in Porous Medium Channel Other Forced Convection Configurations Transient Effects Heat Transfer Enhancement Aspects Natural Convection through Porous Medium Basic Problem Natural Convection Boundary Layers Natural Convection inside Porous Enclosures Mixed and Double-Diffusive Convection Porous Medium Aspects of Biological Systems Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-mass Transport Porous Medium Modelling in Bio-heat Transport Bio-Convection Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Medium The Radiative Transfer Equation (R TE) Radiative Property Measurement Solving the RTE Coupling ofRTE with other Heat Transfer Modes Advanced Topics Bi-disperse and Fractal Porous Media Two-phase Flow through Porous Media Variable Viscosity Porous Medium Flows Upscaling Methodology Applications in Manufacturing Combustion in Inert Porous Media Suggested Reading Bibliography RTE with other Heat Transfer Modes Advanced Topics Bi-disperse and Fractal Porous Media Two-phase Flow through Porous Media Variable Viscosity Porous Medium Flows Upscaling Methodology Applications in Manufacturing Combustion in Inert Porous Media Suggested Reading Bibliography.