V knige privedeny rezul'taty issledovaniy mezhfaznykh vzaimodeystviy v sisteme ugol'-voda-gaz, protekayushchikh pri uvlazhnenii ugol'nogo massiva, ispol'zuemogo v tselyakh upravleniya napryazhennym sostoyaniem dlya povysheniya bezopasnosti vedeniya gornykh rabot. Predstavleny razlichnye fizicheskie modeli uglya, metody issledovaniy, pozvolyayushchie otsenit' vliyanie smachivaemosti i adsorbtsii na fil'tratsiyu vody v ugle. Bol'shoe vnimanie udelyaetsya kraevomu uglu smachivaniya osnovnoy kharakteristike mezhfaznykh vzaimodeystviy i ego vliyaniyu na protsessy fil'tratsii v ugol'nom massive. Rassmotreny protsessy massoperenosa v ugol'nom massive, privedeno reshenie uravneniy massoperenosa dlya mnogofaznoy sistemy. Kniga budet polezna inzhenerno-tekhnicheskim rabotnikam ugol'nykh predpriyatiy, nauchno-issledovatel'skikh i proektnykh organizatsiy, aspirantam i studentam gornykh spetsial'nostey.