Quantitative prediction of permeability in porous rock
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (11) , 8179-8181
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.8179
Abstract
We show that percolation concepts lead to the definition of a characteristic length for the permeability in random porous media. Application of the model to sandstone and carbonate rocks yields quantitative agreement between theory and experiment with no adjustable parameters.Keywords
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