Hydrocarbon microtremors interpreted as nonlinear oscillations driven by oceanic background waves

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 160-173

  Holzner, R ^a   Eschle, P ^a   Dangel, S ^a,d   Frehner, M ^b   Narayanan, C ^c   Lakehal, D ^c  

^a Spectraseis AG   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ASCOMP GMBH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mechanics, theory and modelling in geophysics; Navier Stokes equations; Nonlinear dynamics; Oil prospecting

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOUS FLOW;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MECHANIC, THEORY AND MODELING IN GEOPHYSIC; MICROTREMORS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; NONLINEAR OSCILLATION; OIL PROSPECTING; OSCILLATING LIQUIDS; SEISMIC SIGNALS; THEORY AND MODELS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 45249102444     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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