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From the practical point of view, it is vital to find optimal regimes of treatment
with various kinds of physical fields applied to reservoir rocks to increase the
rate of mineral resources recovery. Theoretical study presented in Part 1 of this
book showed that micro heterogeneous structure of the medium can cause sharp
intensification of physical effects when they are intensified locally in some group
of capillaries. In these cases, weak changes (which are reversible in homogeneous
media) in a saturated medium caused by action from physical fields (acoustic
and/or electromagnetic) on micro capillaries can transform into irreversible ones.
The latter can lead to irreversible changes in macroscopic features of the medium
(permeability, porosity, electric conductivity).
