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In this chapter Darcy’s law for the flow of groundwater through a porous medium (a soil) is presented. Special attention is paid to the permeability and its unit.
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Darcy’s Law. In: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3_6
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