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Porous materials can be both natural and artificial. Suchmaterials are encountered in a wide range of problems dealing with engineering, agriculture and science: Natural materials include soil and rock, and artificial materials can include membrane materials and catalysts used in chemical engineering, etc.
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Ichikawa, Y., Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2012). Introduction. In: Transport Phenomena in Porous Media. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25333-1_1
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