In order to investigate the influence of tailings structural features to its permeability, and with the tailings cy- lindrical model as the research subject, the FLUENT software was used to simulate the permeability coefficient of tailings cylin- der to validate the reliability for obtaining permeability coefficient under the simulating experiment conditions. Through investi- gating the effect of different structure factor on permeability coefficient of tailings cylinder, the regularity among the permeabili- ty coefficient, the particle diameter and porosity was obtained. The permeability coef...