White's model for wave propagation in partially saturated rocks: Comparison with poroelastic numerical experiments

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1389-1398

  Carcione, José M ^a   Helle, Hans B ^b   Pham, Nam H ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ROCKS; WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; DENSITY OF GASES; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; GASES; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

GAS POCKETS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTIAL SATURATION; PARTIALLY SATURATED; POROELASTIC MODEL; PRESSURE EQUILIBRATION; RELAXATION MECHANISM; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

GEOPHYSICS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

P-WAVE; POROELASTICITY; S-WAVE; SATURATED MEDIUM; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0141514434     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1598132     Document Type: Article

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