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Permeability and percolational properties of sedimentary rock

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Formulas for calculating the absolute and relative phase permeabilities of rock are obtained, taking account of the percolational properties of the pore space.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 635–640, October, 1991.

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Mal'shakov, A.V., Efimov, V.A. Permeability and percolational properties of sedimentary rock. Journal of Engineering Physics 61, 1265–1269 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872597

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