An inclusion-based model of elastic wave velocities incorporating patch-scale fluid pressure relaxation

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1503-1509

  Taylor, S Richard ^a   Knight, Rosemary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTIC WAVES; POROUS MATERIALS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FLUIDS; INCLUSIONS; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PATCH-SCALE MODELS; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC MODULUS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIAS; FLUID SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; INDUCED PRESSURE GRADIENT; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES;

GEOPHYSICS; ACOUSTICS;

ELASTIC WAVE; FLUID PRESSURE; POREWATER; RELAXATION; SATURATED MEDIUM; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0242578242     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620623     Document Type: Article

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