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  2. Permeable paving - Wikipedia

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    Permeable pavements may give urban trees the rooting space they need to grow to full size. A "structural-soil" pavement base combines structural aggregate with soil; a porous surface admits vital air and water to the rooting zone. This integrates healthy ecology and thriving cities, with the living tree canopy above, the city's traffic on the ...

  3. Permeability (porous media) - Wikipedia

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    Symbol used to represent in situ permeability tests in geotechnical drawings. In fluid mechanics, materials science and Earth sciences, the permeability of porous media (often, a rock or soil) is a measure of the ability for fluids (gas or liquid) to flow through the media; it is commonly symbolized as k. Fluids can more easily flow through a ...

  4. Pore structure - Wikipedia

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    Micro CT of porous medium: Pores of the porous medium shown as purple color and impermeable porous matrix shown as green-yellow color. Pore structure is a common term employed to characterize the porosity, pore size, pore size distribution, and pore morphology (such as pore shape, surface roughness, and tortuosity of pore channels) of a porous medium.

  5. Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    Water in porous aquifers slowly seeps through pore spaces between sand grains. Porous aquifers typically occur in sand and sandstone. Porous aquifer properties depend on the depositional sedimentary environment and later natural cementation of the sand grains. The environment where a sand body was deposited controls the orientation of the sand ...

  6. Bioclogging - Wikipedia

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    Permeability increases due to dissolving the entrapped air in soil into the percolating water. Permeability decreases for 2 to 4 weeks due to the disintegration of aggregates and biological clogging of soil pores with microbial cells and their synthesized products, slimes, or polysaccharides.

  7. Petrophysics - Wikipedia

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    Permeability: The quantity of fluid (water or hydrocarbon) that can flow through a rock as a function of time and pressure, related to how interconnected the pores are, and it is known by the symbol Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "http ...

  8. Porous medium - Wikipedia

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    At the microscopic and macroscopic levels, porous media can be classified. At the microscopic scale, the structure is represented statistically by the distribution of pore sizes, the degree of pore interconnection and orientation, the proportion of dead pores, etc. [4] The macroscopic technique makes use of bulk properties that have been averaged at scales far bigger than pore size.

  9. Poromechanics - Wikipedia

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    Poromechanics is a branch of physics and specifically continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of fluid-saturated porous media. [1] A porous medium or a porous material is a solid, constituting the matrix, which is permeated by an interconnected network of pores or voids filled with a fluid.