Capillary forces in the acoustics of patchy-saturated porous media

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2596-2606

  Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav ^a   Johnson, David Linton ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID MEMBRANES; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

CAPILLARY FORCES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; DISPERSION; ELASTICITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTICS; ELASTICITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0242609103     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1621009     Document Type: Article

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16. -2 N/m. From Eq. (8) we can then find W=30 GPa/m using s=0.04 and from Eq. (27) W̃ =1 GPa using V/A=0.4 m.