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Porosity and Permeability Lab. The terms porosity and permeability are related. ï· porosity â the amount of empty space in a rock or other earth substance; this empty. space is known as pore space. Porosity is how much water a substance can hold. Porosity is usually stated as a percentage of the materialâs total volume. ï· permeability â is how well water flows through rock or other earth substance.
Using the tortuosity,1. where is the dynamic viscosity of the ï¬uid and k is a. proportionality constant known as permeability .1 .Toa. large extent, the proper description of the ï¬uid ï¬ow through. a porous medium depends on precise relations between the. physical properties involved such as permeability and poros-.