Relating permeability to pore connectivity using a power-law flow unit equation

Petrophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 457-476

  Civan, Faruk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS;

PORE CONNECTIVITY;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0036874950     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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