An analysis of seismic attenuation in random porous media

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 628-637

  Jiong, Liu ^a   Jing, B A ^b   Jianwei, M A ^a   Huizhu, Yang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Inverse quality factor; The attenuation of seismic wave; The theory of Biot poroelasticity; The theory of stochastic process

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GENERAL THEORY; IN-LINE; INVERSE QUALITY FACTOR; LOW FREQUENCY; MODEL SET; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PORO-ELASTICITY; POROUS MEDIUM; POROUS STRUCTURES; QUALITY FACTORS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RANDOM POROUS MEDIA; RANDOM POROUS MEDIUM; RESEARCH TOPICS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; TIME DOMAIN; WAVEFIELDS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953145939     PISSN: 16747348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-010-0109-y     Document Type: Article

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