There have been some doubts about the reality of events that unfolds as nanoparticle (NP) travels in a porous media. A good understanding of this will alleviate this challenge, give a clue on how to enhance the delivery and recovery of nanoparticles, wettability alteration mechanism, and optimisation of nanofluid concentration during nanofluid flooding. Adsorption, desorption, blocking and migration are the main phenomena of nanofluid transport mechanism in porous media. Here, we are concerned with a review and simulation (of NP adsorption) of the afore mentioned phenomena which occurs whenever nanofluid travels through a porous media. Theoretical analysis of these phenomena is presented along with governing mathematical models. Also, results of some NPs' adsorption simulation are shown to consolidate existence of adsorption, quantification of adsorption energy per NP type and suggest the inclusion of NP type as a variable into NP transport models since there is variance in adsorption energy per NP. Gravity force, permeabilities (absolute, relative and effective), capillary pressure, porosity, density, viscosity, saturation, concentration and interfacial tension (IFT) are para-meters considered for phenomena description while Brownian diffusion mechanism is the co-opted mechanism. © 2019, Slovnaft VURUP a.s.