Digital rock physics: Numerical prediction of pressure-dependent ultrasonic velocities using micro-CT imaging

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1475-1482

  Madonna, Claudio ^a   Almqvist, Bjarne S G ^a   Saenger, Erik H ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Microstructures; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BEREA SANDSTONE; CRACK NETWORKS; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC PROPERTY; EFFECTIVE VELOCITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRAIN-BOUNDARY RECONSTRUCTION; GRAIN-TO-GRAIN CONTACTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MICRO CT; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; ROCK PHYSICS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; ROCKS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; DIGITIZATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE EFFECT; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84860836842     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05437.x     Document Type: Article

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