The modeling of granular and porous materials affects a variety of problems that arise from the need to describe the behavior of materials that exist naturally in our surroundings. This work covers all major topics in modeling soil behavior, including transport phenomena: namely, mechanics of porous and granular media, flow and transport phenomena in particulate materials, and numerical simulation methods. It may serve as a reference or seminar text for graduate students, researchers and scientists in applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, finite element methods, solid mechanics, and hydraulics engineering.

Inhalt
I Mechanics of Porous Media.- 1 Constitutive Equations and Instabilities of Granular Materials.- 2 Micromechanical Modeling of Granular Materials.- 3 Thermodynamic Modeling of Granular Continua Exhibiting Quasi-Static Frictional Behaviour with Abrasion.- 4 Modeling of Soil Behaviour: from Micro-Mechanical Analysis to Macroscopic Description.- 5 Dynamic Thermo-Poro-Mechanical Stability Analysis of Simple Shear on Frictional Materials.- II Flow and Transport Phenomena in Particulate Materials.- 6 Mathematical Models for Soil Consolidation Problems: a State of the Art Report.- 7 Flow of Water in Rigid and Non-Rigid, Saturated and Unsaturated Soils.- 8 Mass Exchange, Diffusion and Large Deformations of Poroelastic Materials.- III Numerical Simulations.- 9 Continuum and Numerical Simulation of Porous Materials in Science and Technology.- 10 A Mathematical and Numerical Model for Finite Elastoplastic Deformations in Fluid Saturated Porous Media.- 11 Numerical Modeling of Initiation and Propagation Phases of Landslides.