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Darcy's law

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Darcy's law  (därsz)
A law in geology describing the rate at which a fluid flows through a permeable medium. Darcy's law states that this rate is directly proportional to the drop in vertical elevation between two places in the medium and indirectly proportional to the distance between them. The law is used to describe the flow of water from one part of an aquifer to another and the flow of petroleum through sandstone and gravel.


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I'm a hydrogeologist by training and that can't happen by Darcy's law," which governs the movement of water in a porous medium like an aquifer.
Searching for gas in the swampy Far North by Ross, Ian / Northern Ontario Business
Hooke's law of elasticity, Fourier's law of heat conduction, and Darcy's Law for fluid flow in porous media.
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added support for the fractional power Darcy's law for flow
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