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3-D consolidation of multilayered porous medium with anisotropic permeability and compressible pore fluid

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The work reported here is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50578121). The authors would also like to express their gratitude to the reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions for the improvement of the manuscript.

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where \(C = \frac{k_{v}M}{\gamma_{w}}\), \(q = \sqrt{\frac{s(1 + Mn\beta )\gamma + M\xi^{2}k_{h}}{Mk_{v}}}\), p 1=q 2−ξ 2, p 2=q 2−3ξ 2, p 3=q 2+ξ 2, \(\eta = \frac{2Gs}{MCp_{1}^{2}}\).

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Ai, Z.Y., Cheng, Y.C., Zeng, W.Z. et al. 3-D consolidation of multilayered porous medium with anisotropic permeability and compressible pore fluid. Meccanica 48, 491–499 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-012-9691-6

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