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Fractal properties of capillary imbibition of rocks

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In a series of laboratory experiments, the deterministic and fractal parameters of spontaneous capillary imbibition of rocks have been investigated. The capillary imbibition of higher-permeability samples was characterized by a sharp increase in the saturation at the initial stage and a further increase that is not described by the power law. Analysis of the parameters of the multifractal spectrum of water-saturation variations of the investigated samples in the process of capillary imbibition has shown that the generalized Hurst constant tends to decrease with time in the process of imbibition.

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    V. L. Barabanov

  2. Institute of Physics of the Earth, 10 B. Gruzinskaya Str., Moscow, 123995, Russia

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 3–13, January–February, 2013.

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Barabanov, V.L., Lyubushin, A.A. Fractal properties of capillary imbibition of rocks. J Eng Phys Thermophy 86, 1–11 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-013-0798-y

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