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Critical Saturation

Critical Saturation is a petrophysical threshold quantity defined as the minimum saturation of a fluid phase at which that phase begins to flow in a porous medium, distinguishing it from higher saturations where relative permeability to that phase becomes nonzero.

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Interfacial Density Profile for Fluids in the Critical Region

Frank P. Buff, Ronald Lovett, Frank H. Stillinger · Physical Review Letters · 1965 · 876 citations

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Statistical mechanics of neural networks near saturation

Daniel J. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund, Haim Sompolinsky · Annals of Physics · 1987 · 867 citations

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Effects of temperature, hypoxia and activity on the metabolism of juvenile Atlantic cod

Hendrik Schürmann, J. F. Steffensen · Journal of Fish Biology · 1997 · 311 citations · Full text

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Experimental Study of Wettability Alteration to Preferential Gas-Wetting in Porous Media and Its Effects

Kewen Li, Abbas Firoozabadi · SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering · 2000 · 296 citations

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Bounds on low-frequency seismic velocities in partially saturated rocks

Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji · Geophysics · 1998 · 258 citations

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Authors

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  1. YH
    Y. Higashi

    IRYO Sosei University, Japan

    4 publications · 165 citations

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  2. AF
    Abbas Firoozabadi

    Reservoir Engineering Research Institute, United States

    4 publications · 481 citations

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  3. IN
    Ioannis N. Tsimpanogiannis

    National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece

    3 publications · 116 citations

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  4. JF
    J. F. Steffensen

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    3 publications · 429 citations

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  5. MA
    Margaret A. Tolbert

    Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, United States

    3 publications · 173 citations

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Institutions

212

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    966 citations

  2. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    451 citations

  3. Shell (Netherlands)

    The Hague, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    30 publications

    634 citations

  4. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    282 citations

  5. Reservoir Engineering Research Institute

    Palo Alto, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    962 citations

  6. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    402 citations

  8. IRYO Sosei University

    Iwaki, Japan

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    291 citations

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  1. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

    Conference · 14 publications · 440 citations

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  2. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

    8 publications · 268 citations

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  3. Water Resources Research

    4 publications · 174 citations

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  4. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering

    SPEREE · 4 publications · 380 citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 3 publications · 158 citations

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