An approximation for the Xu-White velocity model

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1406-1414

  Keys, Robert G ^a   Xu, Shiyu ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLAY; ELASTIC MODULI; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROSITY; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; ELASTICITY; GEOMETRY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CRITICAL POROSITY MODEL; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; CRITICAL POROSITY; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTIVE MEDIUMS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SOLID STRUCTURES;

GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR FLOW;

CLAY; PORE SPACE; POROSITY; ROCK PROPERTY; SANDSTONE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036749442     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1512786     Document Type: Article

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