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It was noted that Darcy’s law for fluid flow in permeable media. Was predicated upon the condition that the porous media was entirely saturated with the flowing fluid such a circumstance does not often exist in nature, particularly in the hydrocarbon reservoir. Gas or oil is usually fauna coexistent with water and frequently gas, oil, and water may occupy together the pores of the reservoir.
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Ganat, T.AA.O. (2020). Relative Permeability. In: Fundamentals of Reservoir Rock Properties. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28140-3_6
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