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Title: Device and method for generating a beam of acoustic energy from a borehole, and applications thereof

Abstract

In some aspects of the invention, a method of generating a beam of acoustic energy in a borehole is disclosed. The method includes generating a first acoustic wave at a first frequency; generating a second acoustic wave at a second frequency different than the first frequency, wherein the first acoustic wave and second acoustic wave are generated by at least one transducer carried by a tool located within the borehole; transmitting the first and the second acoustic waves into an acoustically non-linear medium, wherein the composition of the non-linear medium produces a collimated beam by a non-linear mixing of the first and second acoustic waves, wherein the collimated beam has a frequency based upon a difference between the first frequency range and the second frequency, and wherein the non-linear medium has a velocity of sound between 100 m/s and 800 m/s.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1176527
Patent Number(s):
8,559,269
Application Number:
12/793,407
Assignee:
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (San Ramon, CA)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2010 Jun 03
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

Citation Formats

Vu, Cung Khac, Sinha, Dipen N., Pantea, Cristian, Nihei, Kurt T., Schmitt, Denis P., and Skelt, Chirstopher. Device and method for generating a beam of acoustic energy from a borehole, and applications thereof. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
Vu, Cung Khac, Sinha, Dipen N., Pantea, Cristian, Nihei, Kurt T., Schmitt, Denis P., & Skelt, Chirstopher. Device and method for generating a beam of acoustic energy from a borehole, and applications thereof. United States.
Vu, Cung Khac, Sinha, Dipen N., Pantea, Cristian, Nihei, Kurt T., Schmitt, Denis P., and Skelt, Chirstopher. 2013. "Device and method for generating a beam of acoustic energy from a borehole, and applications thereof". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176527.
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abstractNote = {In some aspects of the invention, a method of generating a beam of acoustic energy in a borehole is disclosed. The method includes generating a first acoustic wave at a first frequency; generating a second acoustic wave at a second frequency different than the first frequency, wherein the first acoustic wave and second acoustic wave are generated by at least one transducer carried by a tool located within the borehole; transmitting the first and the second acoustic waves into an acoustically non-linear medium, wherein the composition of the non-linear medium produces a collimated beam by a non-linear mixing of the first and second acoustic waves, wherein the collimated beam has a frequency based upon a difference between the first frequency range and the second frequency, and wherein the non-linear medium has a velocity of sound between 100 m/s and 800 m/s.},
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