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Original Articles

An Estimation of Rock Permeability and Its Anisotropy from Thin Sections Using a Renormalization Group Approach

Pages 539-548 | Received 13 Apr 2009, Accepted 07 Jun 2009, Published online: 15 Dec 2010

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