For years, the various workers have challenged to show the validity of Darcy's law for flow in porous media. Up to now it has been recognized that the linearity relationship between flux and hydraulic gradient fails at high flow velocities. However there is a few researches on the validity of Darcy's law at low hydraulic gradient. Especially, the relationship between the flux and the hydraulic gradient is unknown at low hydraulic gradient under 1.0, and where groundwater moves in the field.
In this paper the previous studies on the validity of Darcy's law for flow in saturated porous media. are introduced and the physical properties of water in saturated porous media and the Non-Darcy's equa- tions are discussed.
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