About the book series |
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Editorial board of the book series |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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About the editors |
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Contributors |
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Section 1 Fundamental concepts |
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3 | (1) |
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6 | (3) |
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1.5 Multiphase flow in porous media |
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1.7 Few comments about the associated thermodynamics |
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2 From upscaling techniques to hybrid models |
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2.2 From first principles to effective equations |
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2.2.1 Classification of upscaling methods |
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2.2.2 Flow: From Stokes to Darcy/Brinkman equations |
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2.2.3 Transport: From advection-diffusion to advection-dispersion equation |
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2.3 Applicability range of macroscopic models for reactive systems |
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2.3.1 Diffusion-reaction equations: mixing-induced precipitation processes |
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2.3.3 Upscaling via volume averaging |
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2.3.4 Advection-diffusion-reaction equation |
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2.4 Hybrid models for transport in porous media |
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2.4.1 Intrusive hybrid algorithm |
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2.4.2 Taylor dispersion in a fracture with reactive walls |
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42 | (1) |
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2.4.5 Non-intrusive hybrid algorithm |
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3 A tensorial formulation in four dimensions of thermoporoelastic phenomena |
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3.2 Theoretical and experimental background |
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3.3 Model of isothermal poroelasticity |
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3.4 Thermoporoelasticity model |
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3.5 Dynamic poroelastic equations |
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3.6 The finite element method in the solution of the thermoporoelastic equations |
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3.7 Solution of the model for particular cases |
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3.8 Discussion of results |
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Section 2 Flow and transport |
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4 New method for estimation of physical parameters in oil reservoirs by using tracer test flow models in Laplace space |
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4.2 Numerical laplace transformation of sample data |
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4.3 The laplace domain optimization procedure |
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4.4 The real domain optimization procedure |
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4.5 The optimization method |
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4.6 The validation procedure |
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4.6.1 Employed mathematical models |
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4.6.2 Generation of synthetic data |
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4.6.3 Result with synthetic data |
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4.7.1 A homogeneous reservoir (Loma Alta Sur |
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4.7.2 A fractured reservoir (Wairakei field |
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4.8 Summary and concluding remarks |
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5 Dynamic porosity and permeability modification due to microbial growth using a coupled flow and transport model in porous media |
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5.2 The flow and transport model |
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5.2.4 Computational model |
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5.3 Numerical simulations |
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5.3.1 Reference study case description: a waterflooding test in a core |
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5.3.2 Modeling of secondary recovery by water injection |
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86 | (2) |
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5.3.3 Modeling of enhanced recovery by water injection with microorganisms and nutrients |
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88 | (2) |
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5.3.4 Porosity and permeability modification due to microbial activity |
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90 | (2) |
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6 Inter-well tracer test models for underground formations having conductive faults: development of a numerical model and comparison against analytical models |
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6.2 Description of the analytical models |
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6.2.1 The closed fault model |
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6.2.2 The open fault model |
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6.5 Comparison of the analytical models against numerical simulations |
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6.5.1 Injection-dominated flow case |
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6.5.2 Fault-dominated flow case |
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6.6 Summary and final conclusions |
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7 Volume average transport equations for in-situ combustion |
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7.2.1 Local mass, momentum and energy equations |
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7.6 Equations for in-situ combustion |
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8 Biphasic isothermal tricomponent model to simulate advection-diffusion in 2D porous media |
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133 | (1) |
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8.2.1 General considerations |
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8.2.4 Solution of the system |
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8.2.5 Management of the partials derivatives |
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8.2.7 Treating the boundary conditions |
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8.2.8 Initial conditions for the fluid flow and the tracer systems |
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8.3 Validation of biphasic flow system |
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170 | (3) |
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Section 3 Statistical and stochastic characterization |
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9 A 3D geostatistical model of Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian facies distribution in Cantarell oil field, Mexico |
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9.2 Methodological aspects of geological and petrophysical modeling |
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9.2.1 The geological model |
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9.2.2 The petrophysical model |
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9.3 Conceptual geological model |
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9.3.2 Sedimentary model and stratigraphic framework |
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9.3.3 The conceptual geological model definition |
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9.3.4 Analysis of the structural sections |
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180 | (1) |
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9.3.5 Description of the stratigraphic correlation sections |
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9.3.6 Lithofacies definition |
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9.4 Geostatistical modeling |
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9.4.2 Stratigraphic grid definition |
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183 | (1) |
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9.4.3 CA facies classification |
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184 | (1) |
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9.4.4 Facies upscaling process |
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184 | (1) |
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9.4.5 Statistical analysis |
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184 | (5) |
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9.4.6 Geostatistical simulations |
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10 Trivariate nonparametric dependence modeling of petrophysical properties |
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195 | (10) |
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10.1.1 The problem of modeling the complex dependence pattern between porosity and permeability in carbonate formations |
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10.1.2 Trivariate copula and random variables dependence |
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196 | (1) |
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10.2 Trivariate data modeling |
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10.3 Nonparametric regression |
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198 | (4) |
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11 Joint porosity-permeability stochastic simulation by non-parametric copulas |
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11.2 Non-conditional stochastic simulation methodology by using Bernstein copulas |
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11.3 Application of the methodology to perform a non-conditional simulation with simulated annealing using bivariate Bernstein copulas |
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11.3.1 Modeling the petrophysical properties dependence pattern, using non-parametric copulas or Bernstein copulas |
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11.3.2 Generating the seed or initial configuration for simulated annealing method, using the non-parametric simulation algorithm |
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11.3.3 Defining the objective function |
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11.3.4 Measuring the energy of the seed, according to the objective function |
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11.3.5 Calculating the initial temperature, and the most suitable annealing schedule of simulated annealing method to carry out the simulation |
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11.3.6 Performing the simulation |
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11.3.7 Application of the methodology for stochastic simulation by bivariate Bernstein copulas to simulate a permeability (K.) profile A case of study |
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11.4 Comparison of results using three different methods |
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11.4.1 A single non-conditional simulation, and a median of 10 non-conditional simulations of permeability |
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11.4.2 A single 10% conditional simulation, and a median of 10, 10% conditional simulations of permeability |
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221 | (3) |
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11.4.3 A single 50% conditional simulation, and a median of 10, 50% conditional simulations of permeability |
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11.4.4 A single 90% conditional simulation, and a median of 10, 90% conditional simulations of permeability |
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12 Stochastic simulation of a vuggy carbonate porous media |
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12.2 X-ray computed tomography (CT |
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231 | (2) |
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12.3 Exploratory data analysis of X-Ray computed tomography |
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12.4 Transformation of the information from porosity values to indicator variable |
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12.5 Spatial correlation modeling of the porous media |
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12.6 Stochastic simulation of a vuggy carbonate porous media |
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237 | (1) |
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12.7 Simulation annealing multipoint of a vuggy carbonate porous media |
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238 | (2) |
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12.8 Simulation of continuous values of porosity in a vuggy carbonate porous medium |
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240 | (2) |
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12.9 Assigning permeability values based on porosity values |
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242 | (2) |
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12.10 Application example: effective permeability scaling procedure in vuggy carbonate porous media |
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244 | (2) |
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12.11 Scaling effective permeability with average power technique |
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12.12 Scaling effective permeability with percolation model |
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12.13 Conclusions and remarks |
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13 Stochastic modeling of spatial grain distribution in rock samples from terrigenous formations using the plurigaussian simulation method |
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13.2.1 Data image processing |
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13.2.2 Geostatistical analysis |
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13.3 Description of the data |
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256 | (3) |
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13.4 Geostatistical analysis |
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259 | (1) |
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13.4.1 Exploratory data analysis |
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13.4.2 Variographic analysis |
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14 Metadistances in prime numbers applied to integral equations and some examples of their possible use in porous media problems |
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14.1.1 Some reasons for choosing integral equation formulations |
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267 | (1) |
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14.1.2 Discretization of an integral equation with regular grids |
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267 | (1) |
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14.1.3 Solving an integral equation with MC or LDS |
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268 | (1) |
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14.2 Algorithms description |
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14.2.1 Low discrepancy sequences |
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269 | (1) |
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14.2.3 What is a "metadistance" |
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270 | (1) |
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14.3 Numerical experiments |
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14.3.1 Fredholm equations of the second kind in one integrable dimension |
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271 | (1) |
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14.3.2 Results in one dimension |
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272 | (1) |
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14.3.3 Choosing a problem in two dimensions |
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273 | (2) |
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14.3.4 Transformation of the original problem |
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275 | (2) |
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14.3.5 General numerical algorithm |
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277 | (1) |
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14.3.6 MC results, empirical reseating |
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278 | (1) |
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14.3.7 Halton results, empirical reseating |
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278 | (2) |
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14.3.8 MDs results, empirical rescaling |
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280 | (2) |
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14.3.9 MC results, systematic rescaling |
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282 | (1) |
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14.3.10 Halton results, systematic rescaling |
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282 | (1) |
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14.3.11 MDs results, systematic rescaling |
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282 | (1) |
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14.3.13 Rate of convergence |
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284 | (1) |
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15 On the physical meaning of slow shear waves within the viscosity-extended Biot framework |
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15.2 Review of the viscosity-extended biot framework |
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290 | (2) |
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15.2.1 Constitutive relations, complex phase velocities, and characteristic frequencies |
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15.2.2 Properties of the slow shear wave |
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15.3 Conversion scattering in randomly inhomogeneous media |
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15.3.1 Effective wave number approach |
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292 | (2) |
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15.3.2 Attenuation and dispersion due to conversion scattering in the slow shear wave |
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294 | (1) |
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15.4 Physical interpretation of the slow shear wave conversion scattering process |
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295 | (3) |
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15.4.1 Slow shear conversion mechanism as a proxy for attenuation due to vorticity diffusion within the viscous boundary layer |
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295 | (2) |
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15.4.2 The slow shear wave conversion mechanism versus the dynamic permeability concept |
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297 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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16 Coupled porosity and saturation waves in porous media |
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16.2 The governing equations |
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16.2.1 Variables and definitions |
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16.2.2 The equations of continuity |
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304 | (1) |
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16.2.3 The equations of motion |
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305 | (1) |
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16.2.4 The porosity and saturation equations |
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305 | (1) |
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16.3.1 The Helmholtz decomposition |
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306 | (1) |
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16.3.2 The dilatational wave equations |
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307 | (2) |
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16.3.3 The dilatational wave operator matrix equation |
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309 | (2) |
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16.3.4 Wave operator trial solutions |
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311 | (2) |
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16.4.1 The porosity wave equation |
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313 | (2) |
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16.4.2 The dispersion relation |
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315 | (1) |
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16.4.3 Comparison with pressure diffusion |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (3) |
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16.5.1 The wave equations |
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317 | (2) |
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16.5.2 The dispersion relation |
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319 | (1) |
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16.6 Coupled porosity and saturation waves |
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319 | (5) |
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16.6.1 The dispersion relation |
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319 | (2) |
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16.6.2 Factorization of the dispersion relation |
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321 | (3) |
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16.7 A numerical illustration |
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324 | (7) |
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16.7.2 The saturation wave |
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327 | (4) |
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332 | (3) |
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