Dispersion and attenuation of acoustic waves in randomly heterogeneous media

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-115

  Parra, J O ^a   Hackert, C L ^a   Ababou, R ^a   Sablik, M J ^a  

^a SW Res Inst   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic waves; Attenuation; Dispersion; Heterogeneous media

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ATTENUATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE ATTENUATION; RANDOMLY HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; DISPERSION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033391781     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(99)00027-0     Document Type: Article

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