Scaling, multifractality, and long-range correlations in well log data of large-scale porous media

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2096-2111

  Dashtian, Hassan ^a   Jafari, G Reza ^b   Sahimi, Muhammad ^c   Masihi, Mohsen ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Multifractality; Scaling exponents; Well log data

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GAMMA RAYS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; NEUTRON LOGGING; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

FRACTURED CARBONATES; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; MULTIFRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIFRACTAL DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTALITY; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; SCALING EXPONENT; WELL LOG DATA;

OIL WELL LOGGING;

EID: 79953324308     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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