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Published on: January 16, 2018
Effects of microgeometry on the permittivity of impregnated porous media
1Physics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
Abstract:
We propose a new approximative relation for the low-frequency dielectric permittivity of liquid-filled porous materials. In this formulation, effects of microgeometry are included through the so-called [Formula: see text] parameter. Our measurements on salt-water-impregnated artificial sandstones support the new relation. We also show that the high permittivities at low frequencies reported earlier for brine-impregnated sintered glass spheres (Nøst et al 1992 Phys. Scr. T 44 67) may be due to effects at the solid - liquid interface in the `bulk' porous material. The latter results are also in agreement with our proposed relation.
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