 Relative permeability

A dimensionless reduction of a porous formation's intrinsic permeability of a porous medium for one fluid phase in multiphase flow. Its effective phase permeability is $K{k}_{ri}$, and its phase mobility is $k_{ri}/{\mu }_i$. It depends on saturation and pore-scale phase configuration; it is not the magnetic use of relative permeability.

Relative permeability is a measure of a porous material's ability to transmit fluids compared to a reference fluid, typically water or air. It quantifies the ease with which different fluids can move through a porous medium, such as soil, rock, or a filter cake, under conditions of partial saturation with multiple fluid phases. In the context of multiphase flow, relative permeability is defined for each phase (e.g.