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Porous media theory is based on the fundamental axioms and principles of mechanics and thermodynamics. The development of the scientific treatment of mechanical problems started around 1600. It was Galileo Galilei who founded mechanics as a branch of science. He laid the corner stone for a scientific approach to the natural world — namely to gather experience of certain mechanical problems, to order them, to create a theory, and to prove this through selected experiments as he had done in the treatments of streangth of material and projectile motion.
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de Boer, R. (2000). The Early Era. In: Theory of Porous Media. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59637-7_2
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