Since the first edition was published in 1987, there has been a rapid expansion in research and professional applications to the area of porous media. This text provides detail in the field covering the mechanical and numerical aspects of flow in porous media, and provides readers with a theoretical aspect to the text by considering averaging theories as well as the phenomenological approach.

Environmental Geomechanics covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance. Transport of contaminants and other substances may occur in the fluids, e.g. water, water vapour and air, filling the pores of geomaterials as happens in waste disposal problems or durability problems. Mass transport also takes place in reservoir engineering problems, where the fluids involved are oil, water, and gas. All these aspects are addressed in this book together with a theoretical framework.