The Dependence of Electrical Resistivity-Saturation Relationships on Multiphase Flow Instability

Table 4

Saturation exponent determined for each experiment.

𝐵^∗𝑜	Data					Mean	Standard deviation
𝐵𝑜=0.017, Varying 𝐶𝑎
−0.0035	Experiment Index	6^1	9^1	20		0.70	0.11
	n	0.59	0.80	0.71
−0.022	Experiment Index	16				0.91	—
	n	0.91
−0.033	Experiment Index	3	13^1	7^1	19	0.96	0.08
	n	0.96	0.90	0.90	1.08
−0.049	Experiment Index	15				1.30	—
	n	1.30
−0.057	Experiment Index	14				1.51	—
	n	1.51
−0.071	Experiment Index	4	8	18^1		1.73	0.27
	n	1.73	1.99	1.46
−0.091	Experiment Index	17				1.43	—
	n	1.43
−0.099	Experiment Index	5				1.71	—
	n	1.71
−0.12	Experiment Index	1^1	10	22		1.96	0.10
	n	2.06	1.97	1.86
−0.17	Experiment Index	2	11	23		1.93	0.02
	n	1.92	1.96	1.92
−0.25	Experiment Index	12	33	34		1.94	0.02
	n	1.93	1.96	1.94
𝐶𝑎=0.049, Varying 𝐵𝑜, Transition Zone
−0.035	Experiment Index	30	31	32		1.38	0.18
	n	1.41	1.17	1.54
−0.038	Experiment Index	28				1.22	—
	n	1.22
−0.041	Experiment Index	24	25	26		1.28	0.19
	n	1.10	1.47	1.27
−0.045	Experiment Index	29				1.40	—
	n	1.40
−0.049	Experiment Index	27				1.59	—
	n	1.59

¹ Significant resistivity drops observed in the data.