1. Introduction to wicking in porous media / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 2. Wettability and its role in wicking / Jijie Zhou -- 3. Traditional theories of wicking : capillary models / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 4. An introduction to modeling flows in porous media / Krishna M. Pillai and Kamel Hooman -- 5. Single-phase flow (sharp-interface) models for wicking / Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai -- 6. Modeling fluid absorption in anisotropic fibrous porous media / Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi and Thomas M. Bucher -- 7. Wicking in absorbent swelling porous materials / Vladimir Mirnyy. [et al.] -- 8. Evaporation and wicking / Stephanie Veran-Tissoires. [et al.] -- 9. Pore-network modeling of wicking : a two-phase flow approach / Vahid Joekar-Niasar and S. Majid Hassanizadeh -- 10. A fractal-based approach to model wicking / Jianchao Cai, Boming Yu, and Xiangyun Hu -- 11. Modeling wicking in deformable porous media using mixture theory / Daniel M. Anderson and Javed I. Siddique -- 12. Simulating fluid wicking into porous media with the Lattice Boltzmann method / Marcel G. Schaap and Mark L. Porter.