“…Indeed, the books of Ames and Straughan [1], Bellomo and Preziosi [2] and Flavin and Rionero [3], see also Doering and Gibbon [4], include detailed accounts of structural stability. Continuous dependence on the model itself in studies of ows in porous media is very much the focus of attention in the recent papers of Franchi and Straughan [5], Payne and Song [6], Payne et al [7], Payne and Straughan [8][9][10][11], Qin and Kaloni [12] and Straughan and Hutter [13]. When we refer to the equations for ow in porous media we have in mind the well accepted equations of Darcy [14] and their ramiÿcations, cf.…”