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Digital rock physics (DRP) is an eminent technology that facilitates and repeatable core analysis and multi-physics simulation of rock properties. One of the challenges in this field is the scalability of the problem size, whereby large micro-CT images over the order of 1000³ voxels incur a high computational demand on performance. We estimate the of permeability in large digital samples of rocks imaged by micro-CT by using a fast and efficient Dual Grid Domain Decomposition technique based on the Schwarz Alternating Method (slow, low memory) with Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) solvers (fast, high memory) to solve on an otherwise unfeasible shared-memory machine. The comparisons and differences to other methods commonly used have been added in the introduction. The method applies a scalable parallel simulation algorithm to solve pressure and velocity fields using the Semi Analytical Pore Scale Finite …