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The aim of this book is to describe the evolution of a viscous fluid region (whose law of motion is Darcy's filtration law) with given initial shape and the positions and rates of sources and sinks. The viscous fluid is surrounded by another fluid of zero viscosity. A special attention is paid to the evolution of algebraic domains (i.e. the domains whose conformal mappings onto the unit disk are given by rational functions). Successively, one investigates the contraction of a gas bubble, the behaviour of the gas-fluid boundary and the evolution of a multiply connected domain. In the process of injection the fluid domain may transform topologically (parts of the boundary may collide or the domain may break up into several pieces in the course of evolution). The evolution of these topological transformations as well as the contraction problems on surfaces are investigated in the last part of the book.