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OVER the past decade much significance has been given to distribution of pore size characteristics in computing both saturated and unsaturated permeability of porous materials. Oil industry investigators1 and soil scientists have adopted this approach to permeability computation with considerable success.
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MILLINGTON, R., QUIRK, J. Permeability of Porous Media. Nature 183, 387–388 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183387a0
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