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Poroelastic modeling of seismic boundary conditions across afracture

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OSTI ID:920346
A fracture within a porous background is modeled as a thin porous layer with increased compliance and finite permeability. For small layer thickness, a set of boundary conditions can be derived that relate particle velocity and stress across a fracture, induced by incident poroelastic waves. These boundary conditions are given via phenomenological parameters that can be used to examine and characterize the seismic response of a fracture. One of these parameters, here it is called membrane permeability, is shown through several examples to control the scattering amplitude of the slow P waves for very low-permeability fractures, which in turn controls the intrinsic attenuation of the waves.
Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director. Office of Science. Basic EnergySciences
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
920346
Report Number(s):
LBNL--60862; BnR: KC0303010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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